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## Chapter 10: The Sixfold Path
**The Sixfold Path**
Those who experience the arising of **Vedana** (experience) are also called **Vedaka Samyagdarshana** (perfect vision). Those who attain **Kshayika Samyagdarshana** (perfect vision that destroys the karmas) never fall back, meaning they never attain **Mithyatva** (false vision). They have no doubt about the principles taught by the Jinas, and they are not surprised by the excesses of the **Mithyadrishtis** (those with false vision).
**Aupashmika Samyagdarshana** (perfect vision that is temporary) is similar, but due to the effects of karma, it can abandon **Upashma Samyaktva** (temporary perfect vision) and enter the **Mithyatva Gunasthan** (state of false vision). It can also attain the **Sasadan Gunasthan** (state of partial liberation), the **Samyagmithyatva Gunasthan** (state of mixed vision), and even **Vedaka Samyagdarshana**.
Those who have **Kshayopaashmika** or **Vedaka Samyagdarshana** have weak faith. Just as the stick in the hand of an old man, though firmly planted in the ground, still shakes from above, so too does the faith of a **Vedaka Samyagdarshana** remain weak in matters of truth, even though it is firmly established in the soul. Therefore, it is not long before **Kuhetu** (wrong reasons) and **Kudrishtaanta** (wrong examples) lead to the destruction of their **Samyaktva**.
Among these three types of **Samyagdarshana**, the shortest and longest duration of **Upashma Samyaktva** is one **Antarmukhurta** (a very short period of time). The shortest duration of **Kshayika Samyaktva** is one **Antarmukhurta**, and the longest duration is slightly less than two **Purva-koti** years (200 million years) and more than thirty-three **Sagar** (a vast period of time), compared to the duration of **Samsara** (the cycle of birth and death). Compared to the duration of **Moksha** (liberation), it is infinite. The shortest duration of **Vedaka Samyaktva** is one **Antarmukhurta**, and the longest duration is sixty-six **Sagar**.
This means that if a being attains **Aupashmika Samyagdarshana** and enters the fourth **Gunasthan** (state of being), its duration is only one **Antarmukhurta**. If it remains in the fourth **Gunasthan** with **Kshayika** or **Vedaka Samyagdarshana**, then it will remain in that state for the longest duration mentioned above for each of these two types.
**The Fifth Gunasthan: Desasanayat**
After attaining **Samyagdarshana**, when the **Apratyaakhyana Avarana** (veil of non-acceptance) of the four **Kshayas** (passions) - anger, pride, deceit, and greed - are destroyed or temporarily subdued, the being develops the desire to observe the **Shravaka Vratas** (vows of a lay follower). According to its capacity, it observes the vows of the eleven **Pratima** (stages) of a **Shravaka**.
Even though this **Gunasthan** has the desire to observe **Sakalasanyama** (complete restraint) - the complete observance of all virtues - it cannot do so due to the intense arising of the **Pratyaakhyana Avarana** (veil of non-acceptance). Therefore, it abandons the five **Papan** (sins) - violence, lying, stealing, sexual misconduct, and attachment - for the rest of its life. It also observes the three **Gunas** (virtues) - **Digvrat** (vow of non-violence), **Deshavrat** (vow of non-attachment), and **Anarthadandavirat** (vow of non-acceptance of punishment).
It performs **Samayik** (meditation) for at least two **Ghadi** (48 minutes) every day during the three **Sandhyas** (twilight periods), meditating on the equality of all beings and abandoning attachment and aversion to pleasant and unpleasant things. It observes **Upavas** (fasting) on the eighth and fourteenth day of every fortnight, abstaining from food, water, and other activities, and dedicating the entire day and night to **Dharma Sadhana** (spiritual practice). It chooses only the essentials from food and daily necessities...