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over all the chances of its fall to the lower stages. This is called Kșã yıka Samyaktva”. It is SthirādỊsţi proper3. But if the spiritual conversion is consequent upon the suppression of Darsana Mohanī ya Karma, the self after one Antarmuhurta either falls to the lower stages or remains in the same stage with the emergence of certain defects ordinarily incognisable. This is known as Upašama Samyaktvas. Here four Anantānubandhi passions and the Vision-deluding Karma which is divided into three qualitatively different fragments of Mithyātva (impure), Samyaktva-PrakȚtı (pure), and Samyaka-Mithyatva (semi-pure) are suppressed. When the impure piece comes up, the self again decends to the first Gunasthāna where again darkness overwhelms? him; if the semi-pure piece, the self falls to the third Gunasthāna, namely, Misra Gunasthāna wherein total scepticism as regards matters spiritual prevails. If there is the rise of the Anantānubandhi passion the soul sinks to the second stage known as "Sasādana Gunasthāna'. This is the intermediatory stage of the self which has fallen from the peak of the mountain of Samyagdarsana, but has not arrived at the stag of the Mithyātva Gunasthanalo. In this stage the peculiar taste of the fall from Samyagdarśana like the peculiar taste of sweet food after its vomiting is experienced"1. Lastly, when the pure piece rises up, it continues to be in the fourth stage, but has lost the purity of Upašama Samyaktva. This is called Kșā yopašamıka Samyaktva!2. 1 Gommațasara Jivakānda, 647 (Rāyacandra)
Ibid, 646 Yogadtstisamuccaya, 154 Bhāvanāviveka by Pt. Chainsukh dass, 93, 100. (Sadbodha Granthamāla, Jaipur) Gommațasāra, Jivakānda, 650. Bhavanāviveka, 98 Labdhisära, 108 Ibid. 107
Gommatasara Jivakanda, 19. 10. Ibid. 20 11. Darśana aur Cintana, Pt. Sukhalal P. 276. 12. Labdhısára, 105.
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