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## The Fifth Karma Granth
451
Due to the increasing purity of the successive results, the exhaustion of karmas (nirjara) becomes increasingly numerous in the form of infinite multiplications of non-contact qualities (asanspataguna). In other words, as the morakarma (karma of attachment) is completely exhausted, the nirjara also increases, and the quantity of the substance (dravya) becomes infinitely multiplied, increasing further and further. As a result, the soul (jiva) gets closer and closer to liberation (moksha).
Those places where the substance of nirjara, multiplied by the factor of infinite multiplications, is found in increasing amounts are called guna-ni (quality-places), and the nirjara occurring in those places is called guna-uni nirjara.
The description of the guna-shreni (quality series) is mentioned in Go. Jivakanda, Gatha 66-67, keeping this view in mind. This description is similar to that found in Karma-prakriti, Panchasangrah, and Karmagranth. However, there is a difference in that the Karmagranth, etc., mentions eleven guna-ni places: Samyaktva (right faith), Deshaviriti (right conduct), Sarvaviriti (right knowledge), Anantanubandhi (infinitely connected), Darshanamoha (destruction of perception-delusion), Chariyamoha (subduing of conduct-delusion), Upashantamoha (subdued delusion), Lapka (grasping), Kshina-moha (diminished delusion), Sayogikevali (liberated with attachments), and Ayogikevali (liberated without attachments). However, in Go. Jivakanda, Tattvarthasutra, Sarvarthasiddhi, Tattvartharajavatika, etc., the two, Sayogikevali and Ayogikevali, are not considered separately, but are included under the term "Jin" (Jina).
The original verses of Go. Jivakanda mention ten places of the guna-shreni, but the commentator, while mentioning eleven places, clarifies that either Samyaktva-utpatti (arising of right faith) can be considered as one place, including the two aspects of Sa-tishaya-miccha-drishti (wrong faith with excess) and Asan-yat-samyaptti (right faith without restraint), thus completing eleven places, or, without doing so, the term Samyaktva-utpatti can be considered as one place, but the final term "Jin" should be considered as including two places: Svasthanasthita-kevali (liberated while remaining in their own place) and Samudayat-gata-kevali (liberated while moving in the assembly). The quantity of nirjara-dravya (substance of exhaustion) of Samudayat-gata-kevali is infinitely greater than that of Svasthanasthita-kevali.
Thus, there is a difference of opinion in accepting eleven or ten places of the guna-shreni.