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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
The Second Process" If the living being can succeed in reducing by only fortyeight minutes this one hundred billion years maximum duration of the Karmas he is then in the second process (Jain Karma philosophy). Here he manifests his desire to remove the worst type of four passions.
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In the third procese he actually controls the worst type of four passions. The end of the second process is the beginning of the third. The three Mohaniya (delusive) Karmas and the worst stage of four passions are rendered impotent. Thus the Mithyātva (delusion) being removed and the karmic knot being cut off, the lowest kind of Samyaktva is reached.
Granthi means the knot knitted by inborn attachment and aversion as to convictions regarding conduct, Bheda means cutting off.
The three karanas can be best explained by the following illustration. Three travellers were going along in a jungle. on their way through the forest the sun set down and they were much frightened at the sight of robbers. The robbers attacked these travellers. One of whom, being much afraid, retraced his steps hastily; the second was caught by the robbers, but the third boldly faced them and advanced on his way fighting against them and finally reached a safe place.
Now this story can be thus allegorised. The jungle stands for the human brith, the long way
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