Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
## Gatha 646
**How can humans born in the Dushama Kala, who are afflicted by the Dushama, overcome the delusion of perception?**
**Solution:**
In the Dushama Kala, Lord Rishabhdev was the Tirthankara. In this Dushama Kala, the third time period, the one-sense beings, starting with Bhardan Kumar, who were born from the Avinipi, overcame the delusion of perception.
Those who are destined to become Tirthankaras themselves initiate the destruction of the delusion of perception karma. Otherwise, the Tirthankarhood of Krishna and others who emerged from the third earth would not be possible.
Only at the feet of the Kevali does a human being attain such purity that they can begin the destruction of the delusion of perception karma. Such purity is not possible elsewhere. However, those who are destined to become Tirthankaras in the same existence and who have destroyed the Tirthankara nature in the previous third existence, possess such purity in their results, due to the presence of the Tirthankara nature, that they can destroy the delusion of perception karma themselves.
From the first moment of becoming a Kritakritya Vedak until the time of the Karmic cycle, the being who destroys the delusion of perception is called a Nishthaphak. The being who begins the destruction of the delusion of perception, after becoming a Kritakritya Vedak, is born in all four realms due to the influence of the Ayubandha and completes the destruction of the delusion of perception. This is because there is no contradiction in the existence of the Bhutaleshya-results in those realms due to their birth in those realms.
**"The form of the objects that are mobile, impure, and dense, which arises from the delusion of perception (Samyaktva nature), should be known as the Vedak Ramyanv."**
**Special Meaning:**
There are three natures of the delusion of perception karma: Samyaktva nature, Mithyatva nature, and Tadubhay (Samyagmithyatva) nature. The delusion of perception in which this being is turned away from the path prescribed by the omniscient, is indifferent to the understanding of the truths, and is incapable of considering what is beneficial and harmful, is the Mithyatva delusion of perception. When the delusion of perception form, due to auspicious results, stops its own ripening (svavipak) and remains in a neutral state, not hindering the understanding of the soul, then it is the Samyaktva delusion of perception. The person who understands this is a Samyagdristi.
The four infinite-binding passions, Mithyatva, and Samyagmithyatva, these six natures, through their arising, destruction, and permanent state of suppression, and the understanding of the truths that arises from the arising of the Samyaktva nature, which is not a destroyer of the world, is the Kshayopakshamik Samyaktva.
**References:**
1. Dhaval Pu. 6, p. 244-247
2. Dhaval Pu. 6, p. 240-248
3. Swa Ka. A. Ga. 306 Tika
4. M. Mi. 18
5. S. Si. 2/5
6. Dhaval Pu. 1, p. 366, Ga. 215