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sent. "In the absence of such traces,” it is said in the Nandi Sūtra, "the very existence of soulhood will be difficult of recognition." From this it would also follow that the destruction-cum-subsidence of the faith-deluding karman even in the least developed soul results in the modicum of right attitude of the soul. The 'samyaktva here is a spiritual spark which is an eternal possession of the soul.
४. सम्यक्त्वाच्च्यवमानः सास्वादनसम्यग्दष्टिः। 4. samyaktvāc cyavamānaḥ sāsvādanasamyagdrsti”.
(Aph.) (The state of) the soul possessed of 'lingering relish of right belief' is one of downfall from that of right belief (from higher state of spiritual progress to the lowest). (IV)
(Note) This lingering taste of right belief is destined to vanish and the aspirant is bound to fall down to the first stage of mithyātva, though only temporarily. As regards the qualitative difference between his original mithyatya and this secondary state, it is difficult to define it prima facie. The mithyātva now will not take a fresh root which was finally destroyed in the initial ascent to the state of samyaktva. It may be noted here that there is the rise of anantanubandhi kaşayas at the stage of säsvādana samyagdrsti. The soul is however not in g rip of mithyatya because there is no rise of any of the three sub-types of darśana mohaniya karman.
The soul can fall down to this state from any of the states beginning from fourth upto the eleventh.
५. मिश्रित-सम्यमिथ्यारुचिः सम्यग्मिण्यादृष्टिः । - यस्य सम्यग् मिथ्या च रुचिमिश्रिता भवति मिश्रितदधिशर्करा-रसानु
भूतिरिव न च सर्वथा पृथक् कर्तुं शक्यते, स सम्यग्मिथ्यादृष्टिरुच्यते । misrita-samyagmithyāruciḥ samyagmithyādrsti”. yasya samyag mithyä сa rucir misritā bhavati misrita-dadhi-sarkarā-rasānübhūtir iva na ca sarvathā prthak kartum sakyate, sa samyagmithyādsştir ucyate.
(Aph.) A soul possessed of right-cum-wrong belief is he who has an inclination to a mixture of right and wrong views. (V)
(Gloss) A person who has an inclination to the right and the wrong -mixed together exactly like the inseparable taste of the mixture of curd and sugar, is called a person possessed of right-cum-wrong belief.
(Note) The implication of the simile of curd and sugar, which is found both in the Svetämbara and the Digambara traditions, is that the taste of the mixture is neither that of curd nor that of sugar, but a new taste devoid of both. In other words, a soul in the mixed state neither approves nor disapproves of the tenets of the Jina, embodying the true nature of reality.
So far as the karmic process is concerned in the attainment of the mixed state, the
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