$JES 901 Jainism and Spiritual Awakening E9

Author(s): JAINA Education Committee
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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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 AWAKENING