Practical Path

SR No.: 006703
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1917
Total Pages: 268
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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STAGES ON THE PATH.
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Main features of the fourteen stages.
Serial
Names of numbergunasthû
nas.
Characteristics.
Mithyâtva. Såsâdana.
Gross ignorance. Vanishing Faith, i.e., the condition of mind while actually falling down from the fourth to the first stage. Mixed faith and false belief,
Miśra.
Right Faith, unaccompanied by austerities.
Aviratasamyaga
dristi.
Commencement of Right Conduct.
Pramatta.
The formation of the aharaka shariru, and observance of vows though tinged with pramada (carelessness or laziness). This is the first stage of life as a muni, i.e., of homelessness, Elimination of pramada, and partial realisation of the svabhāvic ananda, i e., joy.
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Apramatta.
Apurva karana,
Noted for the new channels of thought, thrown open by the purification of mind and the quies
cence of the elements of disturbance. More advanced thought-activity, i.e., meditation.
Anivritti karana,
Sukshmu sámparaya,
Only very slight greed left to be controlled.
U pasántamona.
Quiescence of the remaining traces of greed.
Kshindmoha.
Desirelessness, i.e., the complete eradication of greed, hence perfection in Right Conduct.
Sayogakevali,
Omniscience, hence the perfection of Right Knowledge, and the realisation of the state of jivan-mukti, that is liberation in the embodied state. In the case of Tirthaņkaras revelation also takes place in this stage. The cessation of the activity of the three yogas, i.e., the channels of ásrava. The next step takes one to Nirvana.
Ayogakevali.
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