Introduction to Jainism

Author(s): A B Latthe
Publisher: Natha Rangaji

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ledge are the essences of the soul. Whatever is believeil and known by the soul, attracts the soul with love or hatred. The development of this love or hatred is the bandage of Kar. man. Here comes our next subject.
Moksha, its nature anb its path. It has The uature been already explained to be freedom of Moksha of the soul from every Karman. In the progress of the soul from tha state of bandage to total freedom, there are successive changes in its state, called Gunasthanas, fourteen in number.
The first is Mithyatva Gunasthan, where The Guna- the soul is completely immersed in all sthan the Karmas. The soul does not know its true good. When by some cause it happens to h3ve faith in the right path, it reaches the third or the fourth step of merit. On the fourth step, the faith is pure.
On the third it is mixed with a certain amount of illusion and thus that step is called the step of mixed merit.