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Having attained the eleventh **guna-sthana**, they manifest such great self-strength that in the end they completely destroy attachment and attain the twelfth **guna-sthana**.
Just as the eleventh **guna-sthana** is necessarily recurrent, so the twelfth **guna-sthana** is non-recurrent. That is, the soul that attains the eleventh **guna-sthana** necessarily falls from it once, while the soul that attains the twelfth **guna-sthana** never falls from it but only ascends. Just as students who fail in one exam, by diligence and concentration, increase their competence and then pass that exam; in the same way, souls who have once lost to attachment, by being vigilant and increasing their self-control, necessarily destroy attachment again.
The souls of these two categories are like two paths leading to the highest position of the **paramatma-vi-rupa**, spiritual purity, which are called '**upshama shreni**' and '**kshapka shreni**' in Jain scriptures. The first one takes one up a little distance and then makes one fall, while the second one only takes one up. Even if the one who falls from the first **shreni** goes down to the first **guna-sthana** due to spiritual decline, his state of decline does not remain permanent. Sooner or later, he prepares himself with double the strength and double the caution to face the enemy of attachment, and finally, attaining the competence of the second **shreni**, he completely destroys attachment.
In practice, that is, in the **adhi-bhautic** realm, it is also seen that one who is defeated once can defeat the enemy who defeated him again by being fully prepared.
The main obstacle in attaining the sovereignty of the **paramatma** is attachment. Its destruction depends on the specific development of the inner self. Once attachment is completely destroyed, the other coverings, which are like rust...