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54 First Steps to Jainism
(D)
4. Kashaya and 5. Yoga (Two)
Seventh- Aprammat-Samyat Eighth-Apurva Karana Ninth - Anivriti badar Tenth - Suksham Sampraya
(E)
5. Yoga (alone)
5. Yog
Eleventh - Upshama - Kashaya Twelfth - Khsina - Kashaya Thirteenth-Sayogi Kevali
None
Fourteenth - Ayogi Kevali
It will thus be clear from the above that the whole scheme of Gunasthan is derived according to the principle of decreasing sinfulness and increasing purity of the soul and lessening of the Karma bondage. To progress on this scale, the being has to eliminate each of the causes leading to Karma bondage in the successive order stated above (i.e. Mithyatva, Avirati, Pramad, Kashaya and Yoga) one by one, and thus bring refinement in its own qualities or the Guna, and therefore the name-fourteen stages of Progress of the soul-the Fourteen Gunasthan.
Note - It has not been possible to translate some technical terms used in this
chapter as elsewhere. Original terms have therefore been used. Even the meanings given in English are approximate.
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