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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
2nd Stage. (SASVADANA GUNASTHANA)
The above 16 karmas are not generated in this stage; of the 117 karmas generated [liable to be generated] in the first stage, the remaining 101 may also be generated in this stage.
In this stage, the 5 mithyatva causes do not work. They are controlled. It is to be remembered that 'causes' here means only the instrumental or diterminant cause; the living being himself is always the real cause [ or rather the substantial cause, both causes are equally necessary and real.]
This stage is called 'sasvadana' gunasthana. It is only a momentary state. It is after anger, for instance, bas risen and then subsided, and then is rising again; there is a momentary sensation of the taste of the quiet state; taste of the control of the mithyatva karma. It is not the state when the anger was subsided, that is a higher one, it is the momentary taste of that quiet state. It does not last long enough for the generation of some of the karmas.
The following 25 karmas liable to be generated in this stage, would not be generated in any higher stage: 1. Tiryancha gati nama karma. In any higher
stage than this 2nd stage, you do not gene
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