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343. In effecting the subsidence (of the remaining twenty-one conduct-deluding passions there is a fixed order) as in destructive (ladder), but (the subsidence is in this order; common inclination, female inclination, then the first six minor passions, laughter, etc., male inclination, partial and total-vow-preventing anger, perfect-conductpreventing anger, partial and total vow-preventing pride, perfect conduct preventing pride, partial and total vowpreventing deceit, perfect conduct-preventing deceit, partial and total vow-preventing greed, perfect right-conductpreventing greed, but of the gross kind;-this is the order of subsidence in the ninth stage of subsidential ladder. In the tenth stage of the same ladder, there is the subsidence of the remaining perfect right conduct-preventing greed, i.e., of fine or slight greed (Súkhshama Lobha, viz.) between male (inclination) and perfect right-conduct preventing passions, the middle pairs (namely the partial and total vow-preventing passions) of anger etc. are successively subsided.
Commentary.
But when a Karma is bound, it must remain in that state for one Ávalí called Achalávalí, that is for an Ávalí it remains unmoving (Achala) or fixed, i. e. it has no operation, subsidence or destruction. This is only for duration-bondage which is due to passion in which the minimum duration is one Antar muhúrta, i.e., at least one Ávalí and one instant. But in the bondage merely due to vibrations, i. e., in the eleventh stage of subsidence and twelfth stage of destruction and thirteenth stage of vibratory omniscience there is only nominal duration of one instant, because the Karma comes to bind and operate, and leave the soul in the same instant. Thus there is no question of an Achalávalí there.
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