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minute passions25, precipitated Delusion28, and Annihilated delusion27 are ascended to upgrade this life. If delusion has been totally annihilated then the highest knowledge omniscience manifests and the soul ascends the thirteenth ladder called Energetic Omniscent28. but when the ordinary activities also cause, the fourteenth ladder of motionless Omniscience is reached29.
These are the stages of virtues (righteousness) of accomplishment. But the progress on this path or degrees on account of deficient state in the conquest of passions, depends on the tendencies of passionate inclinations and dynamic activities. The fundamental attributes of life are in the shape of Right Knowledge, Right Faith and Right Conduct, coupled with these in as much higher or lower proportion the tendencies of sense-pleasures and passions exist, to that proportion depends the ascent or descent on these ladders of Evolution. Primarily in the manner the inclinations to delusion are got rid off, in like manner does take the augmentation of virtues in life and according to the accretion of virtues these ladders have been designed. As Much Inconsistencies Vanish That Much Virtues Swell :
To exercise control over mind is the first and foremost thing. When the mind is unrestrained, it rambles in the variedness of tendencies. On one side it slips in the
25. Sukshma Samprai Gunasthan 26. Upshant Mohaniya Gunasthan 27. Kshina Mohaniya Gunasthan 28. Sayogi Kevali Gunasthan 29. Ayogi Kevali Gunasthan
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