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## Papa 30-31
**Gunasthan/33** If the cause of the origin of two opposing Dharmas is considered to be the same, then opposition is the mother. But even if both restraint (Samyama) and unrestraint (Asamyama) are accepted in one soul, there is no opposition, because the cause of their origin is different. The cause of the origin of restraint is the absence of the desire to harm (As-Hinsa), and the cause of the origin of unrestraint is the desire to harm stationary beings (Sthavar-Hinsa). Therefore, Samyama-Asamyama, meaning Virata-Avirata, becomes the fifth Gunasthan.
**Doubt:** From which of the five states - Praudyika, etc. - does the Samyama-Asamyama state arise?
**Solution:** The Samyama-Asamyama state is Kshayopa-shamic, because the destruction of the present-time, all-destructive competitors of the non-rejectable covering Kshaya (A-pratyakhyana-Avaraniya Kshaya) and the suppression of those same competitors that are likely to arise in the future, and the arising of the non-rejectable covering Kshaya, give rise to Samyama-Asamyama-A-pratyakhyana Charitra (Ekadesha Charitra).
**Doubt:** How many Samyag-darshanas are related to the stream of Samyama-Asamyama Desha Charitra?
**Doubt:** Are there Desha-Samyami without Samyag-darshan?
**Solution:** No, because the soul who is devoid of the desire for liberation (Moksha) and whose thirst for worldly objects has not been quenched, cannot have the birth of A-pratyakhyana-Samyama (Desha Charitra).
The arising of the Desha-Ghati competitors of the four Sanjwalanas and the nine No-Kshayas, which are known as Kshayopa-shamic, gives rise to Samyama-Asamyama.
**Doubt:** The arising of the Desha-Ghati competitors of these thirteen natures - the four Sanjwalanas and the nine No-Kshayas - is the cause of the attainment of Samyama. How is it accepted as the cause of Samyama-Asamyama?
**Solution:** No, because the arising of the Desha-Ghati competitors of the four Sanjwalanas, etc., which is obstructed by the arising of the all-destructive competitors of A-pratyakhyana-Avarana, does not have the ability to produce Samyama, except for Samyama-Asamyama.
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The A-pratyakhyana-Avarana Kshaya destroys its opposite, Sarva-pratyakhyana (Sakala-Samyama), therefore it is all-destructive, but it does not destroy all A-pratyakhyana, because it does not have any business in that matter. Thus, the all-destructive nature of the transformed A-pratyakhyana Kshaya is proven, but the nature that gives rise to a particular quality does not acquire the all-destructive nature in relation to that quality. If this is not accepted, then the fault of Ati-prasanga will arise.
1. G.P. 1, pp. 173-175. Sak. 2. P.P. 7, p. 64.