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Dark-period of the self prior to its awakening Mithyātva-gunasthānas (First) Awakening of the self Avirata-samyag- drsti-gunasthāna (Fourth) Fall from awakening (a) Sāsādana-gunasthāna (Second) (b) Miśra-gūnasthānas (Third) Purgation (a) Viratavirata-gunasthānas (Fifth) (b) Pramattavirata-gunasthānas (Sixth) Illumination (a) Apramattavirata-gunasthānas (Seventh); (b) Apūrvakarana-gunasthānas (Eighth); (c) Anivrttikaraṇa-gunasthāna (Ninth); (d) Suksmasamparāya-gunasthāna (Tenth); (e) Upaśāntakaṣāya guṇasthānas (Eleventh); (f) Ksīnakaṣāya-gunasthānas (Twelfth) Dark-period post illumination Fall to the first or the fourth gunasthāna from the eleventh Transcendental life (a) Sayogakevali-gunasthāna (Thirteenth) (b) Ayogakevali-gunasthānas (Fourteenth)
1. Dark Period of the Self prior to its awakening or Mithyātva Gunasthāna. In this gūnasthāna the empirical souls remain in a perpetual state of spiritual ignorance owing to the beginningless functioning of Mohanīya-karma. This Karma on the psychical side genders a complex state of Moha having spiritual perversion (Mithyādarśana) and perverted conduct (Mithyācāritra) as its ingredients. Here the effect of Mithyādarśana is so dominant that the self does not evince its inclination to the spiritual path, just as a man invaded by bile infected fever does not have liking for sweet juice.20 This Mithyādarśana vitiates knowledge and conduct alike. In its presence both knowledge and conduct, however extensive and suffused with morality they may be, are impotent to disintegrate the hostile elements of the soul and to lead us to those superb heights, which are called mystical. Consequently the
20 Gommattasāra-Jivakända of Nemicandra, 17 (Bharatiya Gyanapeeth, New Delhi)
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