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## Chapter 466
## Path of Restraint / 533
**Question:** How can these five divisions (Samayik, Chhedopasthapana, Parihar Vishuddhi, Sukshma Samparaya and Yathakyat) become teachings?
**Answer:** If the five types of accumulation do not occur, then it is not possible.
**Doubt:** How many types of restraint are there?
**Answer:** Restraint is of four types, because the fifth restraint is not found.
Those who have attained purity and whose restraint is primarily characterized by the avoidance of violence are called Parihar Vishuddhi Sanayats. After enjoying pleasures for thirty years according to their own desires, they adopt Samayik restraint in a general way and Chhedopasthapana restraint in a special way. They enter the great ocean of renunciation, which is characterized by renunciation in the form of limited or unlimited rejection according to substance, field, time and feeling. Their entire doubt is removed and they have attained the perfection of avoidance through special austerities. Such a being receives Parihar Vishuddhi restraint at the feet of the Tirthankara.
Parihar Vishuddhi restraint occurs in the two Gunasthanas of Pramat and Prapramat.
**Doubt:** Why does Parihar Vishuddhi restraint not occur in the eighth and subsequent Gunasthanas mentioned above?
**Answer:** It does not, because the souls of those who are immersed in the ocean of nectar in the form of meditation, who follow the vow of silence (Bachanyam), and who have contracted all bodily activities related to the body in the form of coming and going, cannot avoid auspicious and inauspicious actions. Only those who are inclined to act, such as going and coming, can avoid them. Those who are not inclined cannot. Therefore, Parihar Vishuddhi restraint cannot occur in the eighth and subsequent Gunasthanas that have attained the state of meditation.
**Doubt:** The perfection of avoidance is also found in the eighth and subsequent Gunasthanas. Therefore, one should assume that this restraint is also present there.
**Answer:** No, because although the perfection of avoidance is found in the eighth and subsequent Gunasthanas, the function of avoiding is not found there. Therefore, the influence of Parihar Vishuddhi restraint is said to be present in the eighth and subsequent Gunasthanas.
A being becomes Samayik-Chhedopasthapana Vishuddhi Sanayat through the attainment of Mik Kshayik and Kshayopa-shamic.
**Doubt:** Although Samayik and Chhedopasthapana restraint may occur in the attainment of Kshayopagam, they cannot occur in the attainment of Shanik and Kshayik, because these restraints are not found above the Gunasthanas of Anivrittikaran.