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JAIN PHILOSOPHY
(CHAP. VII.)
Only a person exceeding 8 years of age, endowed with the best firmness of the joints, who is in one of the gunasthānas avirata, deśavirata, pramatta or apramatta, is capable of beginning the ascent on this śreni. He annihilates, by the help of the 3 karanas, firstly the anantānubandhins, then the 3 species of disturbance of belief. If he has bound ayus and dies before mith yātva is completely annihilated, he can, in his new existence, eventually bind anew the anantānubandhins ; because the germ of them, unbelief, is still existing. If, however, mithyātva is annihilated, this is impossible. If he has bound āyus, but does not die immediately after the annihilation of the 7 mohanīyas, he is satisfied with what he has attained, and for the moment does not undertake any effort in order also to annihilate the other karmans. He must then still experience 3 or 4 births before he is released.
If, however, he has reached the śreni without having bound āyus, he proceeds, after the destruction of the 7 mohanīyas, immediately to the annihilation of the still remaining mohaniyas. For this purpose, he performs the 3 karanas, of which the first falls into the apramattagunasthāna, the two others into the gunasthānas called after them. During the apūrva-karana he begins simultaneously with the annihilation of the 4 apratyākhyānāvarana- and pratyākhyānāvaraņa-kaṣāyas. When these have half disappeared, he meanwhile annihilates 3 veilings of undifferentiated cognition, viz. the 3 worst kinds of unconsciousness, and the 13 năma-karmans; animal and infernal state, and anupūrvi, 1., 2-, 3-, 4-sensed class of beings, warm splendour, cold lustre, and fine, common and immovable body. Then he annihilates what still remains of the two kaşāya-species. Then follows the kşaya of the 3rd and female sex, of joking, liking, disliking, sorrow, fear, disgust, male sex? and of flaming-up anger, pride and deceitfulness. When this has happened, he leaves the anivytti-gunasthāna and enters into that of the sūkşmasamparāya, where he successively annihilates the flamingup greed, divided into little pieces. With the disappearance of the last particle of greed, all passions are destroyed and the summit of the śreni is reached ; the jīva is now a kşina-kaṣāya. In the penultimate samaya of this gunasthāna he annihilates the two lightest kinds of sleep (nidrā and pracalā), in the following samaya the 5 veilings of knowledge, the 4 veilings of undifferentiated cognition and the 5 hindrances. Thereby he has become a sayogi-kevalin, who is still wandering for a time bodily on earth, but thereafter attains salvation.
1 In this manner the annihilation of sat-karman occurs in man. The succession in a woman is : 3rd, male sex, jocking etc., in beings belonging to the 3rd sex ; female, male sex, joking etc., 3rd sex.
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