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## First Karma Granth, 135
"Perfection occurs gradually. That is, after food, the body, after the body, the senses, and so on. In this way, the sequence of perfections should be completed until the attainment of mind-perfection. This can be explained with an example: Just as women spinning yarn begin spinning cotton together, but those spinning thick yarn finish quickly and those spinning fine yarn finish later, similarly, the beginning of perfections happens simultaneously, but their completion occurs sequentially.
In the Audaric, Vaikriya, and Aharak bodies, there are perfections. The sequence of their completion in these bodies should be understood as follows:
The Audaric body of a Bala Jiva completes the first perfection in one moment, and then the second in the next moment, and then the third. Similarly, the fourth, fifth, and sixth are completed sequentially, each in a moment.
The Vaikriya and Aharak bodied Jivas complete the first perfection in one moment, and then the second in the next moment, and then the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth perfections sequentially, one at a time. However, Devas complete both the fifth and sixth perfections sequentially, but together in one moment.
The characteristics of perfections like Ahar, etc., are as follows:
(1) The perfection of the specific power by which a Jiva, by taking in external food pudgalas, transforms them into Khalabhag and Rasabhag, is called Ahar-paryapti."