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THE DOCTRINE OF LIBERATION IN INDIAN RELIGIONS
extent, that is why it is called mithyādīştiguņasthāna. All the unawakened jīvas remain in this stage without beginning and without end, but with those who have experienced right vision and again fall back to this stage do not sink deep but they get over it sooner or later. This state can be compared to a blind man who is unable to say what is ugly and what is beautiful. A man engrossed in mithyadrsti cannot discriminate between reality and unreality. From this stage, the self passes to the fourth stage. 2. TASTING OF RIGHT BELIEF (SĀSVĀDANA-SAMYAGDRSTI)
It is the state of a short duration because the self passes through the second stage while falling down from the fourth or higher stage. Here the self has only the taste of true faith and goes between wrong and right notion. 3. MIXED ATTITUDE (MIŚRA)
It is the mixture of right and wrong faith due to the rise of samyagmithyātva-kar man. The faculty of right faith is partly pure and partly impure. It is also a transitional stage which lasts only for an antarmuhürta, then it may either go to higher stage or may fall back to second or first stage. 4. RIGHT BELIEF WITHOUT ABSTINENCE (AVIRATASAMYAGDRSTI)
On account of subsidence of four intense types of passions (anantānubandhikaṣāyas), the self gets right vision on the spiritual path
ds emancipation but cannot perform the rules of conduct necessary for the elevation of it. The right vision of this stage is of three kinds viz. right vision attained due to subsidence of vision-deluding karmic matter (aupaśamikasamyaktva), right vision-attained due to annihilation of four life-long passions, and three sub-classes of right vision-deluding karmas (kṣāyika-samyagdrsti) and the attainment of right vision through subsidence-cum-annihilation of the relevant karmas (kṣāyopaśamika).107 5. PARTIAL RENUNCIATION (DEŠAVIRATA)
In this stage the self feels the importance of self-discipline and right conduct, he cannot adopt full ascetic code of conduct but adopts partial renunciation, i.e. the practice of twelve anuvratas and eleven stages (pratimās).
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