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11 - FOURTEEN GUNASTHÄNAK
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Sayoga Kevali
the omniscient beings with activities of Body, Speech, and Mind The stage of omniscience without any activities of body, speech, and mind
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Ayoga Kevali
1. Mithyätva (False conviction or faith) Mithyatva is the lowest or first stage wherein the soul, due to manifestation of Mohaniya (Deluding) Karma, does not believe in the Right Path to liberation. This state is possessed by all souls from the beginning of time. The characteristic mark of this Gunasthäna is perversity of attitude towards truth; or unbelief in the truth Three progressive stages Mithyätva or Mithyätva Mohaniya stage
• Mithyätva Mohaniya (Wrong belief) • Mishra Mohaniya (Right/wrong belief)
Samyaktva Mohaniya (Clouded right belief) Soul directly migrates to 4th stage after acquiring right conviction of its proper or right knowledge 2. Sasädana (Stage of having tasted true belief) The soul exists in this state only when it actually falls down from the fourth to the first stage. The soul has a taste of true belief. The maximum time the soul remains in this state is less than 48 minutes. 3. Mishra (Mixed Stage) It is a mixed or partially rational belief state. This state explains the condition of mind while actually falling down from the fourth to the first stage. Also, after the first fall, it is the condition of mind going up from first to third and then to the fourth stage. Its duration less than 48 minutes. 4. Samyag-drashti or Samyaktva (Right Faith or Conviction) For the first time, the Soul migrates directly to 4th stage from the 1st stage. The Soul possesses Right Faith and Right Knowledge (called Samyaktva) but lack of self-control or conduct and hence it
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JAINISM AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
