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Righteousness of FD Karma : (125)
This should be generally known that there is subsidence of the faithdeluding karma in (1) all the infernal beings in all the hells, (2) mansional gods, residing in all the mansions, (3) peripatetic, (4) astral and (5) empyreans up to nine Graiveyaka planes, (6) lower and nonlower class of gods and (7) instinctive 5-sensed completioned subhumans existing in all the continents and oceans and (8) all the completioned human beings residing in 2.5 continents.
All the living beings, which are subsider of the faith-deluding karma, are free from obstructions. They do not acquire the second spiritual stage of lingering right faith during the process of subsidence. The volitions related with this stage are optional (may or may not be there) after the subsidence of faith-deluding karma. However, the Jīva does not acquire this stage after the destruction of the faith-deluding karma.
The Jiva, beginner in the process of the subsidence of the faith-deluding karma, has determinate conscious engagement. However, the living being in the intermediate stage or in the stage of completion 1 conclusion of the process of subsidence may or may not have this state. The living being subsides the faith-deluding karma under any one of the mental, vocal or bodily activities and should have acquired the minimal degree of yellow aureole by volitions. (The intermediate stage here is the mode of Jīva during the temporal interval between the 'beginning and concluding' modes of subsidence of FD Karma).
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