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333. In wrong belief, etc., (i. e., the first) 3 (stages of wrong-belief, downfall and mixed. there is existence of all the 148 sub-classes, but in the first), Tírthankara and assimilative (body and limbs) do not co-exist; (in the 2nd) all (these 3 do not exist at any time); and (in the 3rd) the Tirthankara (sub-class does not exist), (because) in the souls in which these sub-classes can exist, these stages are not possible.
Commentary. Thus in one soul in the 1st stage there can be 147 or 146 at a time, in the 2nd, 145, in the 3rd 147 in existence. Although obviously 148 exist, in the first stage, in some souls collectively at a given time, but all the 148 sub-classes can not exist in one soul at one time. A soul in which the Tírthankara or assimilative body and limbs is in existence is never in the 2nd stage, i. e., it never falls down from right-belief to wrong-belief through the intervention of the second stage, on account of the operation of any of the 4 error-feeding passions. A soul in which the Tirthankara sub-class is in existence, can never touch the 3rd stage, to which a soul would not ascend, in the first instance, from the first stage, but which it may reach while falling down to it from the 4th, or during an ascent, after falling down from the 4th to the first. In other words the soul which has already bound the Tirthankara sub-class can never have mixed right and wrong-belief.
चत्तारिवि खेत्ताइं आउगबंधेण होइ सम्मत्तं । अणुवदमहव्वदाइंण लहइ देवाउगं मोत्तुं ॥ ३३४ ॥ चतुर्णामपि क्षेत्राणामायुष्कबन्धेन भवति सम्यक्त्वम् । अणुव्रतमहाव्रतानि न लभते देवायुष्कं मुक्त्वा ॥ ३३४ ॥
334. Right-belief can arise on the bondage of (any of the) 4 ages in (any of the) 4 conditions. (But the soul) does not acquire the partial vows (of the 5th) and the full vows (of the 6th and 7th stages) except (when it binds) the celestial age-Karma.
Commentary. This is so because in the soul who has got bondage of the other 3 ages the thought-paint in a soul, with bondage of either of the
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