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belief (Mithyátva) the right belief being lost, the (stage) should be known by the name of Downfall (Sásana or Sásádana).
Commentary.
Subsidential right-belief is of 2 kinds (1) Prathamaupashama Samyaktva-the first subsidential-right-belief. It may arise (1) in a soul which has never had right-belief, by the subsidence of the four Error-feeding passions (4 Anantánubandhi Kashayas) and wrong-belief Mithyátva; or (2) in a soul which has had (but has lost) right-belief, by the subsidence of the above 5, and of the 2, mixed-right-and-wrong belief (Samiaktva Mithyátva) and right-belief-clouded-by-slight-wrong-belief (Samyaktva Prakriti Mithyátva) Karmas.
(2) Dvitíyopashama Samyaktva, the second subsidential rightbelief. It arises in a saint in the 7th spiritual stage of perfect vows, when the saint is preparing to pass on to the 8th stage of New-thought-activity along the ladder of subsidential advancement, having been already a right believer of the destructionsubsidential kind. He transforms the nature of the four error-feeding passions, into lesser passions, and causes the subsidence of the 3 sub-classes of right-belief-deluding Karmas, namely, Mithyátva, Samyaktva Mithyátva, and Samyaktva Prakriti Mithyátva. The right-belief of this saint is called the second subsidential rightbelief.
The matter of wrong belief Karma by being subjected to the thought-activity of the first subsidential right-belief is changed into the above 3 kinds. Wrong belief has the largest number of molecules. Mixed-right-and-wrong belief has a number of molecules innumerably less than it. And right-belief-clouded-by-slightwrong-belief innumerably less than those of mixed-right-andwrong-belief.
In (Gáthá) 11, the thought-activity in this stage is said to be the natural (Párináamika) thought-activity of the soul; this is so because the right belief which the soul had acquired in the 4th stage has left it, and it has not yet fallen back into the stage of wrong belief (Mithyátva). The minimum duration of the fall is one instant of time, and the maximum is 6 winks (Avali). During this downfall the soul has neither right belief nor wrong belief, therefore it is said to have its natural (Párinamika) thought-activity; because right-belief-deluding Karma (Mithyátva) has not yet begun to operate, but will do so after 6 winks at the most, i. e., when the
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