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46 First Steps to Jainism
logical rules e.g. from first Gunasthan the soul transits straight to the fourth, but it may regress to third or second on its path to the first for reasons given herein-later.
3 We will know more about them as we briefly describe each of the fourteen Gunasthans, in the subsequent paragraphs. First let us enumerate the names of the fourteen Gunasthans and then describe each of them briefly as under :
(i) Mithyadrishti Gunasthan
(ii) Sasvadana-Samyagdrishti Gunasthan (iii) Samyag-mithyadrishti Gunasthan (iv) Avirat Samyagdristi Gunasthan (v) Deshvirat Shravak Gunasthan (vi) Pramatta - Samyata- Gunasthan
(vii) Apramatta-Samyata-Gunasthan
(viii) Apurva Karana or Nivriti Badar Gunsthan
(ix) Anivritti badar Gunsthan
(x) Sukhshama Sampraya Gunasthan (xi) Upshant Kashaya Gunasthan (xii) Ksheena Kashaya Gunasthan (xiii) Sayogi Kevali Gunasthan
(xiv) Ayogi Kevali Gunasthan.
For convenience the above names are given below in Hindi :
(i) मिथ्या दृष्टि गुरणस्थान (ii) सस्वादन सम्यगदृष्टि गुणस्थान (iii) सम्यग मिथ्यादृष्टि गुणस्थान (iv) अविरत सम्यगदृष्टि गुरणस्थान (v) देशविरत श्रावक गुणस्थान (vi) प्रमत्त संयत गुणस्थान
(vii) अप्रमत्त संयत गुरणस्थान (viii) अपूर्व करण या निवृति बादर गुणस्थान
( 1X ) अनिवृति बादर गुणस्थान
x ) सूक्षम सम्पराय गुणस्थान (xi) उपशांत कषाय गुणस्थान (xii) क्षीण कषाय गुणस्थान (xiii) सयोगी केवली गुणस्थान (xiv) योगी केवली गुणस्थान
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