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<noinclude>'''Four variables''' (Skt. ''aniyata''; Tib. [[གཞན་འགྱུར་བཞི་]], [[Wyl.]] ''gzhan ‘gyur bzhi'') — a set of four mental states which are part of the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because their nature (virtuous, non-virtuous or neutral) varies according to one's motivation and other accompanying mental states. They are:
<noinclude>'''Four variables''' (Skt. ''aniyata''; Tib. [[གཞན་འགྱུར་བཞི་]], [[Wyl.]] ''gzhan ‘gyur bzhi'') — a set of four mental states which are part of the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because their nature ([[virtue|virtuous]], non-virtuous or neutral) varies according to one's motivation and other accompanying mental states. They are:


</noinclude>#[[sleep]] (Skt. ''middha''; Tib. [[གཉིད་]], Wyl. ''gnyid'')
</noinclude>#[[sleep]] (Skt. ''middha''; Tib. [[གཉིད་]], Wyl. ''gnyid'')

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Four variables (Skt. aniyata; Tib. གཞན་འགྱུར་བཞི་, Wyl. gzhan ‘gyur bzhi) — a set of four mental states which are part of the fifty-one mental states, so-called because their nature (virtuous, non-virtuous or neutral) varies according to one's motivation and other accompanying mental states. They are:

  1. sleep (Skt. middha; Tib. གཉིད་, Wyl. gnyid)
  2. regret (Skt. kaukṛtya; Tib. འགྱོད་པ་, Wyl. ‘gyod pa)
  3. conception (Skt. vitarka; Tib. རྟོག་པ་, Wyl. rtog pa)
  4. discernment (Skt. vicāra; Tib. དཔྱོད་པ་, Wyl. dpyod pa)

Alternative Translations

  • Four variable factors (Padmakara)
  • Four changeable types of subsidiary awareness or mental factors (Berzin)