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3. Guna-śreņi - arranging karmas in such a way that their effect can be experienced even before the actual time of their fruition.
4. Guna-sankramaṇa-transforming the nature of the effect of karmas, e. g., turning an evil karma to bear an advantageous fruit.
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5. Apūrvabandha - minimizing the duration and intensity of fruition of karmas being performed in the present (kriyamāņa).
9th Anivṛttikaraṇa Guṇasthāna
The aspirant ascends to this stage by supressing or destroying all lustful desires which in Jainism are called veda, and all passions except subtle greed.
10th Sukṣma-samparāya Guṇasthāna
In this stage the remaining six no-kaṣāyas i. e., häsya, rati, arati, bhaya, soka and garha or laughter, attachment, aversion, fear, sorrow and hatred are removed.
11th Upasanta-moha Gunasthana
This unfortunate, dangerous and necessarily impermanent stage is reached when the last of the twenty-eight mohaniya karmas responsible for subtle greed (samjvalana lobha) is supressed. Samjvalana lobha is interpretted by some scholars as deep-rooted attachment to the body, and clinging to life. Since subtle aspects of evil tendencies are merely suppressed, they reawaken and the aspirant slips back to the seventh stage after 48 minutes.
12th Kṣina-moha Gunasthāna
Aspirants progressing by annihilating the evil tendencies go to this stage directly from the tenth. This is the stage of moral perfection when all caritra mohaniya karmas are destroyed, and is also called yathākhyāta căritra. The soul remains in this stage for 48 minutes only.
13th Sayogi-kevali Gunasthāna
During the last part of the twelfth stage darśanāvarantya, jñānāvara
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