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THE WAY OF INNER DEVELOPMENT
75 3. Aniurtti karana : To bring soul in such a state
of purification when further progress becomes automatic. This progress is uniform and depends no more on individual effort. The eighth stage is known as Apūrva karaña on account of the second feat in form of five reductions. The aspirants in this guṇasthāna do not necessarily have uniformity in the level of their self-purification at the moment of first entrance on further advance. There are innumerable degrees according to the status of individuals. For this very reason the eighth guņasthāna is known as Nivịtti also showing the absence of uniformity
in spiritual progress. The nineth guṇasthāna is known as Anivstti. The aspirant after reducing the stock of karman through the means of sthitighāta etc. comes to a point when his progress becomes automatic. Consequently, all the aspirants make a uniform advancement. All of them are on the same status in the first and successive moments of their progress. This uniformity is known as Anivștti.
These two guṇasthāna last not more than a muhūrta. (48 minutes). They are also known as Badara Samparāya (with big passions) in contrast to Sukşma Samparāya (with small passions), the tenth guṇasthāna. Anger, conceit and crookedness are regarded as big passions in relation to greed which is recognized as the small passion. The first three continue upto the nineth stage only and greed continues upto the tenth. At the end of the eighth stage the aspirant subdues six types of
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