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There is another way to know the existence of above four stages. The first stage is possible in the aspirant with all the three yogas (activities). He can apply the motors of mind, speech and body for his deliberations. The second is possible in the aspirant who uses one instrument only for his deliberation. The third stage is possible with kāya.yoga (bodily activity) only; and in the fourth stage no activity of any type is possible.
Dharmadhyāna appears at the removal of darśanamohanlya. It is possible in a samyagdssti only. The first stage of śukla dhyāna is reached when Mohanlya is totally removed. The second stage occurs when all the ghātikarmans are destroyed and kevalajñāna is attained. The third stage is a complete cessation of mental and verbal activities. It is a process to attain the fourth stage where the activities come to stop entirely whereby the soul is liberated from all bonds. Leśyā (Thought paints)
Another category that expresses the different stages of soulpurification is leśyā. It is that by which a jiva assimilates virtue and vice with itself. The feelings arising from yoga, coloured by passions, lead to bhāvaleśyā and the actual colours of bodies produced by such feelings are called dravyaleśyās. They are held six according to the different grades of temperament possessed by living beings. Each grade is represented by a colour in the following way :
1. Krsnaleśyā--Black 4. Tejoleśyā—Golden 2. Nīlālesya-Blue 5. Padmaleśyā-Lotus colour
3. Kāpotaleśyā-- Pigeon 6. Suklaleśyā-White All of them are found upto the sixth guṇasthäna. The seventh contains only the last three. The eighth to thirteenth contains sukla only. The fourteenth gunasthāna has no leśyā as the mind does not work there. 1 Stbānāngasūtra 247, Ävaśyaka IV. 2 Āvaśyaka, Haribhadra Ţikā p. 645 3 Tattvārtha X. 10
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