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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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4th GUNA STHANA...
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Avirati-samyak-drishti-guna-sthana,
Drishti means attitude. It is a noun. Samyak is an adjective and means right or proper. Avirati means 20 control (here it means lack of control except of the anantapubandhis. No control of the sense pleasures and other karmas than the anantanubandhis of the mobaniya division). Guga means quality, and sthana means stage,
All persons in this fourth guna-sthana have control of the darshana and anantapubandhi mohaniya karmas (or kashayas). Besides this factor, there is the other factor of samyaktva. So the characteristics of this fourth stage are;
(a) Lack of control. (of sense pleasures &c.) (b) right attitude. Kashaya means that which soils.
The lack of control here is also lack of control of the sense pleasures. Persons in this stage, while they do not have this self-control, still they do appreciate the value of self-control but through weakness they are not able to practice it. These living beings can be classed under three heads.:
1. These (a) know the value of self-control; but (b) they do not make the effort to acquire it;
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