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libcration. The first of the three pains, or Adhyatmika is of two kinds--physical and mental. Bodily pain, as you shall hear, is of many sorts. Affections of the head, catarrb, fever, cholic, fistula, spleen, hefttorshoids, intumeacence, sickness, opthalmia, dysentry, leprosy, and many other diseases consti- tute physical affliction. Mental pains are love, anger, fear, hate, covetousness, stupefaction, despair, sorrow, malice, dis- dain, jealousy, envy and tnany other passions that are creat- ed in the mind. These and diverse other afflictions, mental or physical, are comprised under the class of worldly sufferings which is called Adhyatmika. The pain Adhibhautika, ex- cellent Brahman, is every kind of evil that is inflicted upon men by beasts. birds, men, goblins, snakes, fiends, or reptiles and the pain that is called Adhidaivika or superhuman is the work of cold, heat, wind, rain, lightning and other phenomena. Affliction, Maitreya, is multiplied in thousands of shapes in the progress of conception, birth, decay, disease, death and hell. The tender animal exists in the embryo surrounded by abundapt filth, floating in water and distorted in its back, oeck and bones ; enduring severe pain even in the course of its development and disordered by the acid, bitter, pun- gent and saline articles of its mother's food ; incapable of extending or contracting its limbs, reposing amidst slime of ordure and urine ; every way incommoded with conciousness and calling to memory many hundred previous births. Thus exísts the embryo in profound affliction bound to the world> by its former works.