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When conduct rises ...
The pursuit of the three gems enables the continuance of the state of self experience. Once the atma has been experienced, the jiva continues to remain in the thoughts of devotion and that itself is the continuity of the state of experience.
In various situations in life, the experience, attention and awareness of the own natural disposition, that a samakiti jiva has, along with the purification of samakit, are strong reasons for progress.
While telling us how quickly such ajiva progresses, Srimadji says -
वर्धमान समकित थई, टाळे मिथ्याभास;
JG4 gru afant, aitarem u RH .....888
The progressive state of samakit means the increasing purity of the experience of the atma. In a jiva in samakit state, infinite karmas keep getting wiped out from time to time. Impurity declines and purity continues to increase. Even charitra mohaniya karma undergoes nirjara. As a result attachment and aversion are subjugated. This subjugation avoids the mithya feelings that reside in a jiva.
Here the question arises that we are talking of a state wherein mithyatva is gone and samakit has been attained, then what is this mithya feeling again? All the feelings under mohaniya are mithya feelings. When samakit occurs, of the 28 characteristics under mohaniya, only seven are eliminated. There are 21 more - anger etc., and the nine nokashayas.
Of these, the increasing purity of samyaktva first diminishes the four apratyakhyani and pratyakhyani kashayas. These characteristics are detrimental to charitra in the form of deshavirati and sarvavirati. As these characteristics diminish, charitra rises.
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