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time and after knowing that, he may continuously make efforts to ascend the higher (stages) till he reaches the highest goal. Fourteen such, stages of virtues have been nomenclatured as fourteen stages of Evolution.15
When consciousness (spirit) remains surrounded by the dense clouds of ignorance and blind faith and is far off the congnition of its own nature, then its such a wretched undeveloped stage is called first Gunasthan (first ladder of Evolution).16 In this condition delusion predominantly reign on the soul, as a result of which he wrongly comprehends the reality of a substance for unreality. On account of this reverse vision of false belief, this stage has been declared as the ladder of False Belief
When the curtain of delusion goes up and the conscious spirit inclines towards knowing its real nature, then steps lead to the first ladder of soul's evolution, which in the philosophic language has been termed as Right Vision devoid of vows17, or the fourth ladder. Here right faith takes birth : however so long as the effluence of right perception (faith) does not take a stable form, it sometimes
•Note-Though False belief is a defect, yet it has been enumerated in the
series of Gunasthan - stage of virtue, for the simple reason that in practical life this vision is partially correct, one can discern day and night a man and animal. For this reason to some extent this vision being correct has been counted in virtue yet this belief for the amelioration of soul is lacking, therefore, it is wrong, hence
called (False belief). 15. Gunasthan 17. Avirat Samyag-drashti
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