Book Title: $JES 901 Jainism and Spiritual Awakening E9 Author(s): JAINA Education Committee Publisher: JAINA Education CommitteePage 68
________________ 11 - FOURTEEN GUNASTHÄNAK 11 - Fourteen Gunasthänak The Fourteen Stages of Spiritual Development 14 Steps to Freedom Stud Freedom 13 Omniscience 12 Passionless Stage 11 Supressed Passions 10 Subtle Greed 09 Minimal Passions 08 Free of Gross Passions 07 Strong Self Discipline Gunasthänak 06 Accelerated Discipline 05 Partial Renunciation 04 Right Faith 03 Mixed Stage These steps are in a logical sequence, not in a chronological sequence of spritual progress 02 Tasted Righteousness 01 Delusion or False Vision Overview The fourteen Gunasthänas represent the soul's gradual manifestation of the innate qualities of knowledge, belief and conduct in a more and more perfect form. This way Soul travels from complete ignorance or illusionary (Mithyätva) state to the complete blissful and liberated state JAINISM AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGPage Navigation
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