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## Gatha 717
## Palap/753
**Gathary:** All Devas have three Palaps in their four Gunasthanas: Mithyatva, Sasadan, and Avirat. The special feature is that Bhavanatrik and Kalpavasini Devis have only one Palap in their Avirat Gunasthana. ||17||
**Special Meaning:** There are a total of four Gunasthanas possible for all Devas. In the first, second, and fourth Gunasthanas, all three Palaps are present because in these Gunasthanas, Devas are seen to have birth and also Mithyatva, Sasadan, and Asanyat Samyaktv Gunasthanas in their Avyapt state. This means that Devas are both Avyapt and Vyapt in Mithyashti, Mamadan Samyagdristi, and Asanyat Samyagdristi Gunasthanas. All Devas are Vyapt in the third Gunasthana as a rule. Therefore, there is only one Vyapt Palap in this third Gunasthana.
**Doubt:** How can Devas be Vyapt in the third Gunasthana as a rule?
**Solution:** Because they do not die with the third Gunasthana, and the Mavyarimathyastra Gunasthana does not arise even in the Avyapt period.
**Doubt:** If we accept the rule that they are only Vyapt in the third Gunasthana, then does this lead to Ekantvad?
**Solution:** No, because there is no contradiction in the existence of Ekant in Anekantagabhit.
Bhavanavasi, Banvyantar, and Jyotishi Devas and their Devis, as well as Saudharma and Aishankarpabasini Devis, are all Vyapt and Avyapt in Mithyashti and Masadan Samyagdristi Gunasthanas, because the birth of such beings with these two qualities is seen in the appropriate Devas and Devis. However, the special feature is that Devas and Devis in Samyagmithyatva and Avirat Samyaktv Gunasthanas are Vyapt as a rule, because they do not die and take birth in them. Therefore, there is only one Vyapt Palap in the Asanyat Gunasthana of Bhavanatrik and Kalpavasini Devanganas.
**Doubt:** It is true that a being with a mixed Gunasthana does not take birth in the appropriate Devas and Devis, because the being does not die with the Samyagmithyadristi Gunasthana. But it is not true that a being with Asanyat Samyagdristi does not take birth in the said Devas and Devis.
**Solution:** No, because a being with Mithyashti does not take birth in the lower Devas.
**Meaning:** A being with Samyagdristi, which is born in Narakas and Niyantas who have attained the lower state, does not take birth in Bhavanavasi Devas and Devis who have attained the higher state, and in Kalpavasini Devis.
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