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Tattvārtha Sūtra
To understand the nature of substances, it is essential to recognize that once right knowledge (samyaktva) is attained, it can be quickly achieved again through meditation. In the end, after the realization of non-substantiality, it will definitely be attained. However, in the context of various living beings, it is not always present, as different beings continuously acquire right vision in some instances.
13. Avasta (Stage) specifics. Samyaktva is of three stages: apashamik, kshayopamika, and kshayika. These stages arise from the covering of karma that is related to the true nature of right perception. Through this understanding, the purity of samyaktva can be discerned. Among these, kshayopamika and kshayika are progressively more pure than apashamik. Additionally, unique to the above three aspects:
1. A living being transforms substances (pudgala) into physical form, language, mind, and breath, while another living being places all substances in the universe in the form of food, and additionally in terms of physical body and the aspects of language, mind, and breath. Over whatever time it takes, those substances present are referred to as non-perceptive substances.
2. Here, kshayopamika is described as more pure than apashamik, not in terms of result but in terms of state. Concerning the results, apashamik is indeed more pure since at the stage of kshayopamika, there is interaction with the realm of falsehood, while at the stage of apashamik, it is devoid of any falsehood.