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JAINA THEISM AND CONCEPT OF SOUL
6. Pramatta Samyata
Monks, in this stage, take great vows and there is a complete abstinence from un-virtuous acts, however there does exist lethargy or carelessness (Pramāda). Pramāda means negligence of religious acts or acts of duty; not performing them or performing them carelessly. Pramāda is due to rise of mild passion, which is there in soul up to tenth Guņasthāna.“!
7. Apramatta-Samyata
This is the stage of spiritual inertia and lethargy. Eleven the self-controlled monk fluctuates between the state of spiritual lethargy and that of spiritual vigilance and vigor. In this stage, all careless conducts are stopped and practice of vows becomes perfect and faultless.
8. Apūrvakaraņa
‘Karaņa' means activity of soul. In this stage, soul attains special purification and is capable of reducing the duration and intensity of the previously bound karmas and binds new karmas of reduced duration and intensity. From this stage onward begins the process of either suppression or annihilation of the karmas, and increase in purity of soul more rapidly. The stage is called apūrva because the soul performs these processes with a vigor and rapidity unprecedented (apūrva) in its history.
9. Anivștti Bādara Samparāya
Unprecedented spiritual favor and vigor already attained in the previous stage, here become uniform in all souls climbing up the same ladder of suppression or annihilation.
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