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It has gone. Therefore, it is necessary and appropriate to introduce the subject in general at this place.
The purpose of writing this book is to describe the different states of worldly beings and to establish that certain states are temporary and undesirable due to being conditional, potential, or karma-created; and certain states are permanent and desirable due to being natural. It also aims to show that the soul's nature is primarily to evolve. Therefore, it explains how the soul evolves according to its nature and how it manifests its natural powers by abandoning conditional states.
To achieve this objective, this book mainly discusses five topics:
(1) Jiva-sthān (State of the Soul), (2) Mārgaṇā-sthān (State of the Path), (3) Guṇa-sthān (State of Qualities), (4) Bhāva (Emotion), and (5) Saṅkhyā (Number).
Among these, the first three main topics are discussed along with other subjects: In Jiva-sthān, (1) Guṇa-sthān, (2) Yoga (Union), (3) Upayoga (Application), (4) Leśyā (Tendencies), (5) Bandha (Bondage), (6) Udaya (Arising), (7) Uvīraṇā (Covering), and (8) Sattā (Existence) are discussed. In Mārgaṇā-sthān, (1) Jiva-sthān, (2) Guṇa-sthān, (3) Yoga, (4) Upayoga, (5) Leśyā, and (6) Alp-bahutva (Fewness-Manyness) are discussed. In Guṇa-sthān, (1) Jiva-sthān, (2) Yoga, (3) Upayoga, (4) Leśyā, (5) Bandha-hetu (Cause of Bondage), (6) Bandha, (7) Udaya, (8) Uvīraṇā, (9) Sattā, and (10) Alp-bahutva are discussed. The last two topics, namely Bhāva and Saṅkhyā, are not discussed in conjunction with any other topic, meaning no other topic is discussed in relation to them.