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one instant, to 48 minutes minus one instant. When the whole Antar-muhúrta of this renewed advanced-thoughtactivity has elapsed, except one numerable part of it, then in this last numerable part the wrong belief, mixed and clouded belief sub-classes are successively destroyed. Thus it is, that the great destructive right belief, which is a sure and certain precursor of early Liberation is attained.
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Thus in the 1st stage, there is existence of 148 subclasses. But Tirthankara sub-class is repugnant to the pair of assimilative body and limbs in this stage. Therefore, actually there is the existence only of 147 or 146 in a soul at a time. But the same soul may at one time have 146, and at some other, 147 in the first stage. For example, suppose a soul has 147 in existence; and having transformed the two assimilative body and limbs, it binds the hellish age, then rises to the 4th stage of vowless-right-belief, and there binds the Tirthankara Karma and then falls back to the 1st stage for going to the 2nd or 3rd hell, he would then have 146 in existence. In the second, none of the above three exist, i.e., there are only 145.
.In the 3rd, 147, i. e., all the 148 except the Tirthankara exist.
In the 4th, all the 148 exist, except in a destructive right-believer who has destroyed the 7 mentioned above and has 141 only.
In the 5th, 147 or 140 exist as in the 4th stage minus the hellish age.
In the 6th, there exist 146 or 139, as in 5th minus the sub-human age.
In the 7th, 146 or 139, exist as in the 6th.
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In the 8th, in the subsidential ladder 145, exist, i. e., all except the hellish, sub-human and celestial ages but in a destructive right believer 138 exist and in the destructive ladder there exist 138, i. e., 145-the 7 mentioned above.
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