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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
possessed of any one of the types of false convictions excepting the type above mentioned.
Considering from time point of view false conviction has three varieties. (1) With no beginning and with no end, (2) Beginningless but with an end. (3) With beginning and with end.
Non-worldly souls bear false conviction since the beginning less times and the same can never be wiped off. Thus it is beginningless and endless. Worldly souls excepting those who are born are possessed of beginningless false conviction having an end. But those worldly souls who have lost their right belief to gain false belief have the same with beginning and with end.
All the souls in the beginning enjoy this stage of these attributes.
(2) SASWADANA-SAMYAKDRASTI GUNASTHANA
(The stage of touching Right-belief) When the soul has no false conviction and no right conviction then it has some inclination (taste) for right conviction. Then the soul is said to reach the second stage named "Saswadana-Samyakdrasti" "Saswadana" means with Swada i.e. taste or inclination.
When does the soul attain this stage ? The worldly soul wanders for endless 'Pudgala Paravartana' time entertaining false conviction. A rough and rugged stone in the river tossing here and there finally shapes round. Similarly when this soul acting under Anabhogika type of false-conviction reduces all the seven forms of Karmas to the extent of infinite-part of Palyopama (one Krodakodi Sagaropama) then it is drawn itself much nearer to knotty fortress of dense multitude of passions.
Non-worldly souls also having minimised their karmic layers are drawn much nearer to this state for numberless times but they cannot break through the fortress while the worldly soul with pure mental resolves can break through and face the rightconviction.
This progress of Soul is classified in three manners. (I) Yathapravruti Karana. (2) Apurva Karana. (3) Anivruti Karana.
The activity till the soul is drawn in the vicinity of the fortress of passions is called Yathaprayruti Karana. When that fortress
