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Preface
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He became a samyagdrishti again and rested there for some time, and then he became a human again in this life. Again, in this life too, he adopted the vow and died, and was born among the devas with a lifespan of twenty, twenty-two or twenty-four sagaras. In this way, he continued to wander in the lives of humans and devas with samyaktva, until the second time the sixty-six sagaras were not completed. After the period of sixty-six sagaras of living with samyaktva was over, due to the increase of klesas in the results, he fell and became a mithyadrishti. In this way, he remained a samyaktvi for a continuous period of one hundred and thirty-two sagaras, remaining in the mithyadrishtiguna-sthana. This is the excellent antarakala of his mithyadrishti. It should be specially known here that the said jiva, in whichever human births he was born, he became the bearer of a devayu less than the human lifespan. If the human lifespan is not reduced in the devayu, then the antarakala will be more than one hundred and thirty-two sagaras.
It is also specially known here that the period of one hundred and thirty-two sagaras of wandering in humans and devas that has been described, is said to make the dull-witted understand. In reality, he can complete one hundred and thirty-two sagaras in any heaven or Graiveyaka and the like.
After the description of kala, the intention of describing the antaras is that the time of each guna-sthana or marga-na-sthana is connected with its antara. In the description of kala, the names of the guna-sthanas that have been described as the same for all jivas, their antara is not different for those jivas. Except for them, the antara of all other guna-sthana jivas is different for different jivas and for one jiva. In this way, there are six guna-sthanas that are antara-rahita (without antara) for different jivas - 1. Mithyadrishti, 2. Asanyata-samyagdrishti, 3. Sanyatasanyata, 4. Pramatta-sanyata, 5. Apramatta-sanyata and 6. Sayogikevali. Many jivas always remain present in these guna-sthanas. However, except for the Sayogikevali guna-sthana, in the remaining five guna-sthanas, there is a minimum and maximum antara for one jiva, which the readers can know very well by studying the text.
There are only eight marga-nas that have an antara. All the rest remain continuous. The marga-nas in which antara is possible are called santara-marga-nas. The first of those eight is Upasham Samyaktva Marga-na. Its maximum antara is seven ahoratras (days and nights). This means that in the world, the absence of Upasham Samyagdrishti jivas can be at most up to seven ahoratras. After them, some jiva or the other will definitely adopt Upasham Samyaktva. The second santara-marga-na is Sukshma-sampraaya Sanyama Marga-na. Its maximum antara is six...