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I am the Soul
charitra appears, dravya charitra inevitably follows. The thoughts of avrata and pramada step down from the nature, and that is when charitra appears, in the never before state of stability in the atma in the form of the apramatta state. This is the situation of the jiva in the seventh gunasthana.
Now only the sanjwalan kashayas are left. But these are very mild. As such they do not come too much in the way of the jiva's progress. In the progressive state after the seventh gunasthana, the jiva can diminish these too. Srimadji has described that state, which is there just before that -
एम पराजय करीने चारित्रमोहनो, आवुं त्यां ज्यां करण अपूर्व भावजो,
श्रेणी क्षपकतणी करीने आरूढता,
अनन्य चिंतन अतिशय शुद्ध स्वभाव जो .... अपूर्व .
The situation of the seventh apramatta gunasthana is there for a mere antarmuhurta. But invariably the jiva cannot remain there for that entire antarmuhurta. There is a pramada and the jiva returns to the sixth gunasthana. There it remains for a long time. Again there is a rise in the feelings and the seventh gunasthana is attained. The jiva remains there for a few seconds or perhaps a few minutes. But when the consequent state of the jiva begins to turn very pure, when this purity begins to increase, the jiva proceeds further. And if this state continues for two ghadis (48 minutes) i.e. for the complete extent of an antarmuhurta, the jiva manages to achieve kevaljnana at the end of it. In other words, within this period it makes a tremendous effort. As a result Veetaraag state appears. Here, Srimadji too says that once charitra mohaniya is overcome, and the jiva remains for two ghadis in the stable situation of being engrossed in the original form of the atma, the jiva manages to attain the eighth gunasthana, where hitherto dormant bhavas which are responsible for manifesting the charitra, arise. This is called apurvakaran.
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