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(24) No. In addition, a person's qualifications related to karma, etc., are not always the same, because the qualifications related to karma, etc., change constantly due to the changing results and thoughts every moment. Therefore, the spiritualists have classified worldly beings based on their inner purification-induced evolution and impurity-induced devolution. This classification is called 'Gunasthan Krama' in the classical definition.
This order of Gunasthan is such that it makes it easy to include all worldly beings in those divisions and to explain their suitability related to karma, etc. And the ability of a being, which changes constantly, can also be demonstrated by some division. This order of Gunasthan has been established and eliminated by a psychoanalytic examination of the fluid nature of the inner purity of worldly beings. This makes it easy to tell and understand that a certain type of inner purity or impurity is the cause of so many karmic natures, bondage, rise-excitation, and existence.
A brief discussion of Gunasthan
The places of qualities (soul powers), i.e., the gradual stages of the soul's development, are called Gunasthan. In Jain philosophy, 'Gunasthan' is a technical term and its meaning is the state of the soul's powers emerging - their pure function form - becoming manifest in the form of tamas-bhaava.
The true nature of the soul is pure consciousness and complete bliss, but as long as the three karmic coverings are overshadowing it, then its...