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The third chapter deals with the destruction of the five types of knowledge-obscuring karma, the nine types of perception-obscuring karma, the two types of vedaniya karma (due to the difference between saata and asaata), the twenty-eight types of mohaniya karma, the four types of ayush karma, the forty-two types of name karma, the two types of gotra karma, and the five types of antaraya karma. Upon destroying these karmas, they become merged with the infinite number of previous Siddhas and reside on the top of the three worlds. They are characterized by samyaktva, infinite knowledge, infinite perception, infinite power, extreme subtlety, natural understanding, uninterrupted infinite bliss, and lightness. They are known for their eight qualities, are countless in number, and are formless due to the destruction of the twenty qualities related to pudgala. They have a form slightly smaller than the last body, are like the space within a wax mold, and are free from birth, old age, death, undesirable things, association, separation from the desired, hunger, thirst, disease, and all other sufferings. They are free from the five types of transformations, which are based on the differences in substance, field, time, existence, and state, and are therefore blissful in nature.
The asiddhas, or worldly beings, are of three types: asanyata, sanyatasanyata, and sanyata. The asanyata state is in the first four gunasthanas, the sanyatasanyata state is in the fifth gunastana, and the sanyata state is in the nine gunasthanas from the sixth to the fourteenth.
The jiva, residing in the parinaamic state, is engaged in the gunasthanas due to the arising, destruction, subsidence, or destruction-subsidence of mohaniya karma. There are fourteen gunasthanas, of which the first is mithyadristi, which is considered to be the one that bears the name "meaningful," the second is saasadan, the third is misra, the fourth is asanyata samyagdristi, the fifth is sanyatasanyata, the sixth is pramatta sanyata, the seventh is aprammatta sanyata, the eighth is apuurvakarana, the ninth is anivrittikarana, the tenth is sukshmasampraaya, the eleventh is upashanta kshaya, the twelfth is kshinamoha, the thirteenth is sayogakevali, and the fourteenth is ayogakevali. Of these, the three gunasthanas from apuurvakarana to anivrittikarana, which are prior to upashanta kshaya, are both of the upashamak and kshapak types.
There is no difference in the external form of those who reside in the nine gunasthanas from the sixth to the fourteenth.