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I am the Soul
585 infinite time get dissolved. The thinking that I am the doer' and “I am the sufferer' is overcome, and the clear understanding that the self is the omniscient soul begins to prevail. This 'bodha' itself is capable of demolishing the Darshanamohaniya. It may well demolish it through upashama bhava, or kshayopashama bhava or kshayika bhava, but it does not let the Darshanamohaniya remain.
The demolition of charitra mohaniya is through the Veetaraag state. Veetaraug state is when there is no attachment or aversion. Where there is a complete stability in the soul. The instability of the soul is due to charitra mohaniya. Charitra mohaniya begins to weaken in the degree in which the stability of the soul begins to increase. Charitra mohaniya is such that it can diminish only gradually. Nojiva can totally remove it at one instance at once. A jiva with lightened karma, after attaining kshayika samakit may well totally destroy charitra mohaniya in a fraction of a moment. But it does take that long. As attachment and aversion begin to diminish, charitra mohaniya begins to wane too. Total elimination of attachment and aversion is the Veetaraag state. That is when not even a degree of charitra mohaniya can remain. Jiva attains its original dispassionate form which is full of sat-chit-ananda. This gradually developing state is also otherwise described as the progress in the gunasthanas.
By the fourth gunasthana, the jiva has partially attained the Veetaraag state, as a result of which the charitra mohaniya in the form of infinitely bonding kashayas, weakens considerably. As the jiva progresses into the fifth gunasthana, it destroys the apratyakhyani kashayas and by the time it reaches the sixth gunasthana, it destroys the prutyakhyani kushayas. Then by the time it passes through the seventh, eighth and ninth gunasthanas, it demolishes the sanjwalana kashayas of anger, pride, avarice and greed and the nine kashayas. Now what is left is merely sukshma lobha, which it destroys in the tenth gunasthana. By the twelfth gunasthana, complete Veetaraug state is developed.
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