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If a progressing soul illuminates the special light of the fourfold force of non-attachment, then it crosses over the temptations and allurements and attains the special state of non-distraction. Having attained this state, it prepares itself with such power that the remaining clinging attachments can be destroyed. This role of preparation for the future battle with attachment is called the eighth Gunasthan.
In this Gunasthan, such self-purification occurs for the first time. As a result, some progressing souls gradually suppress the influence of the karmas of attachment and eventually make them dormant. And there are others with special self-purification who completely eradicate all those karmas from the very beginning. Thus, those who progress beyond the eighth Gunasthan, i.e., those who approach the supreme role of the Atman-nature through the development of the inner self-nature, are divided into two categories.
One category consists of those who completely subdue attachment once but are unable to destroy it. Just as a measure of liquid filled in a vessel sometimes, due to its momentum, throws the vessel up or down, or just as fire suppressed under ashes starts working as soon as it gets a gust of wind, or just as mud settled at the bottom of water, upon slight disturbance, rises up and makes the water muddy, similarly, the previously subdued attachment, due to its momentum, throws down those first-category souls who are exhausted in the internal battle. Even after being completely subdued once, attachment, which...