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VRATAS.
Thus Apurva-guna-sthāna' means the 'sthāna' or abods of qualities, virtues, not before existing in a monk, nol before possessed by a monk.
When a monk has attained some (special) virtues quite new, as yet not possessed by him, he is said to be in this eightth stage of development.
Here he has attained the power (1) to control or press down at will 'Karmas' just when he feels them rising. (This is said 'upshama-bhāva' or controlling power).
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(2) To totally work out the ‘Karmas', entirely remove, destroy them. (This is 'Kshāyika bhāva' or destroying power).
In this stage, 'sanıyaktva-inohaniya karma' has no 'udaya' or rising. It has already set, (while one is in the seventh stage) never to rise again,
It is only when this "Samyaktva-nuohaniya-karma' has been removed or totally destroyed that one is said to have reached this eighth stage of development.
Again, in this stage, 'Dnānāvaraniya', 'darshanāvaraniya', 'mohaniya' and 'antarāya'—these four kinds of 'karma' are in a slumbering state. Though apparently not active, they have not been really destroyed, eradicated (from the very root). Their effect is gradually being nullified.
Also, ‘Mohaniya karma' has its thirteen 'prakritis' or forms left unremoved; though their activity has decreased to a very great extent.
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