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GOMMATASARA.
खबगे य खीणमोहे जिणेसु दव्वा असंखगुणिदकमा । तव्विवरीया काला संखेज्जगुगुकमा होंति ॥ ६७ ॥ क्षपकेच क्षीणमो हे जिनेषु द्रव्याण्यसंख्यगुणितक्रमाणि । तद्विपरीत : कालाः संख्यातगुणक्रमा भवति ॥ ६७ ॥
66, 67. At the rise of right belief (4th stage, of vowless right belief), in the layman (Shrávaka, 5th stage of partial vows), in the vowful (virata in the 6th and 7th stages of imperfect and perfect vows), in one who transforms the 4 error-feeling passions (into the remaining 21 kinds of passions), in the destroyer of the right-beliefdeluding karma, in one who brings about the subsidence of passions (in 8th, 9th and 10th stages, of new thoughtactivity, advanced thought-activity, and all-but-passionless in the subsidential ladder), in the subsided delusion, (Upashama Shrení, the 11th stage, of Upashsánta Moha), in the destroyer of passions (in the 8th and 9th and 10th stages of the destructive ladder (Kshapaka Shrení), in delusion-less (the 12th stage Kshina-Moha), in the Conquerors (Jinas -i. e., the Omniscient Lords in their own Place (Svasthána Kevali), and in overflow (Samudgháta Kevali); in these (11) counting Jina as two (vibratory and non-vibratory); (the shedding of) karmic matter is innumerable-fold in their order, (i. e., it is innumerable fold in each as compared with the immediately preceding stage). On the contrary, the time (taken in shedding) is numerable-fold (less) in the same order.
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(Nirjará). Shedding of karmic matter is either when the karma bears its fruit on maturity and falls off, (Savipáka), or when by deliberate thought-activity a karma is made to mature and fall off (Avipáka). The shedding meant in the Gatha is the antematurity shedding, due to the thought-activity of a right-believer. As right belief goes on being re-inforced by ever-increasing rectitude and purity of right conduct, the rate of shedding goes on increasing so that at each succeeding stage it increases innumerable fold. It
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