Comments

Comm. NT: 20.
Paṭhamajjhānakathāvaṇṇanā

The intention is that it is as if the sixth and seventh impulsions had lapsed since impulsion beyond the fifth is exhausted. The elder’s opinion was that just as the first impulsion, which lacks the quality of repetition, does not arouse change-of-lineage because of its weakness, while the second or the third, which have the quality of repetition, can do so because they are strong on that account, so too the sixth and seventh fix in absorption owing to their strength due to their quality of repetition.
But it is unsupported by a sutta or by any teacher’s statement in conformity with a sutta.
And the text quoted is not a reason because strength due to the quality of repetition is not a principle without exceptions (anekantikattā);
for the first volition, which is not a repetition, has result experienceable here and now, while the second to the sixth, which are repetitions, have result experienceable in future becomings.

пали	Bhavaṅgassa vāro hoti.
Nyanamoli thera	and the life-continuum20 takes over.