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GOMMATASARA.
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नष्टाशेषप्रमादो व्रतगुणशीलावलिमण्डितो ज्ञानी। अनुपशमकः अक्षपको ध्याननिलीनो हि अप्रमत्तः॥४६ ।।
46. He, whose combinations of carelessness are all suppressed, who is adorned with the chain of the (ö great) vows, (28 root) qualities, and calm disposition, has right knowledge, is absorbed in concentration, and is not capable of ascending further on the subsidential or destructive ladder (Upashama or Ksha paka Shrení), is certainly in the ordinary Syasthána) stage of perfect (apra-matta) vows.
Commentary. This is called ordinary (Svasthána or Niratishaya), because the soul cannot rise higher from this stage; it lasts only one Antarmuhúrta; and from it the soul falls down to the 6th, and re-ascends to the 7th stage, again and again. The 6th stage also lasts one antmuhúrta.
इगवीस मोहखबणु बसमण णिमित्ताणि तिकरणाणि तहिं। पढमं अधापवत्तं करणं तु करेदि अपमत्तो ॥ ४७ ॥ एकविंशतिमोहक्षपणोपशमननिमित्तानि त्रिकरणानि तेषु । प्रथममधः प्रवृत्तं करणं तु करोति अप्रमत्तः॥४७ ॥
47. (There are) 3 (kinds of thought-activity (karana) for the destruction or subsidence of 21 sub-classes of right-conduct-deluding-Karma (cháritra moha). (These are all the 25 passions except the 4 error-feeding, Anantánubandhi passions). (He who) out of these (3), gains the first lower (thought-activity) (adhah pravritti karana,) is (in the extraordinary (sátisháya, 7th stage of) perfect vow (apramatta).
Commentary. The soul which attains the extraordinary stage of perfect vow faces, and is fit to go up either the subsidential or the destructive ladder. If he is a right believer of the subsidential-destructive kind (kshayopashama samyaktva), he will first transform the Karmic matter of the 4 error feeding passions into the remaining 21 passions; then after one antarmuhúrta, by the subsidence of the 3 sub-classes
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