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Karma, having reached the eighth *guna-sthana*, either takes on the *upshama* or *kshapika* category or returns to the sixth *guna-sthana*.
**(8) Nivritti-badar Guna-sthana** This is also called *Apuvrakaran Guna-sthana*. *Adhyavasaya*, *Parinam*, *Nivritti* - these three are synonymous terms, in which the *aprammatta* soul's *ananta-bandhi*, *apratyakhyana-avaran* and *pratyakhyana-avaran* - these three *chauk* shaped *badar* *kashya* are eliminated, that state is called *Nivritti-badar Guna-sthana*.
The sixth and seventh *guna-sthana* exist within a moment. But the *san-yata* (monk) who attains a special type of purity by touching the sixth and seventh *guna-sthana* and is about to establish the *upshama* or *kshapika* category, comes to the *guna-sthana* called *Apuvrakaran*.
Although the beginning of both categories is from the ninth *guna-sthana*, their foundation is laid in this *guna-sthana*. The eighth *guna-sthana* is for laying the foundation of both types of categories, and the categories begin in the ninth *guna-sthana*. That is, in the eighth *guna-sthana*, there is only the potential for *upshama* or *kshapana*.
At the time of the eighth *guna-sthana*, the being establishes these five things:
(1) *Sthiti-ghat*, (2) *Rasa-dhal*, (3) *Gunani*, (4) *Gun-san-kraman* and (5) *Apuv-sthiti-bandh*.
(1) *Sthiti-ghat* - Reducing the large state of karma by *apvartanakaran*, that is, removing the karmic particles that are about to arise in the future from their fixed times of arising by *apvartanakaran*, is called *Sthiti-ghat*.
(2) *Rasa-ghat* - Reducing the intense power of the bound *shana-avaran* etc. karmas to bear fruit by *apvartanakaran* is called *Rasa-ghat*.