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wrong-belief by the subsidence of Karmas, attains right-belief and
passes on to the 4th stage. This subsidence lasts for one Antar· muhúrta and in this interval the matter of the wrong-belief-Karma splits up into the 3 kinds of, wrong-belief, right-wrong-belief, and clouded-right-belief. After the antar-muhurta of subsidence, the soul passes into the stage corresponding to any of these three, which-ever may come into operation. It is thus that although the bondage is of wrong-belief only, the operation is of the three-subclasses.
The four kinds of intensity as they are distributed in the above 3 sub-classes have been dealt with in Gatha 181.
Thus leaving these 20 aside, we are left with 27. These may be considered in two groups, 19 of wholly destructive and 8 of partially destructive. In the 19 wholly destructive, i.e., in perfect knowledgeobscuring, perfect-conation-obscuring, somnambulism, deep sleep, heavy drowsiness, sleep and drowsiness, and in the 12, i. e., error-feeding, partial and total vow-preventing classes of the 4 passions anger, pride, deceit and greed, there are only 3 degrees of fruition in intensity corresponding to the hardness of stone, bone, and wood as given in the chart below:--
And in the 8 partially destructive minor passions, i, e., all the nine except male inclination, there are only 3 degrees of intensity of fruition corresponding to stone, bone and wood as given below:
Notice that in the 3 degrees of the 19, creeper is omitted ; but it is included in the 3 degrees of the eight.
A partially destructive sub-class at its lowest may have a very very mild intensity like the softness of the creeper. But even the lowest kind of a wholly destructive Karma in intensity is like the medium hardness of wood.
The 17 partially destructive.
The 8 partially
destructive.
19 wholly destructive,
Stone.
Stone.
Stone
Bone. Bone.
Bone. Bone
Bone. Bone.
Wood. Wood. Wood.
Wood. Wood. Wood
Wood Wood. Wood.
Creep-Creep-Creep-1 Creep-Creep-Creep-Creep
er. er. er. er. er. er. er.
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