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Stages of the Spiritual Developemnt
215 of apratyākyāna kașāya the aspirant takes partial vows. This gunasthāna includes not only those persons who inhabit the houses but also the person who leaves the house but cannot take to monkhood. Thus the highest type of a śrāvaka is he who neither does, nor makes others do, any prohibited action. We have already dealt with the eleven stages of this gumasthāna at the end of the fifth chapter.
6. Pramatta samyata gunasthānal :
After subduing the third degree of passion viz. pratyā. khyānavarana,? when only sanjvalana type remains, the aspirant joins the order of mendicants. He observes complete restraint but is still open to such negligences as pride, enjoyments of senses, passions and sleep. The partial peace that one gets in the fifth stage of spiritual development inspires him to adopt complete self-control and to proceed towards self-realisation. Now he relinquishes all social obligations and joins the order of mendicants to devote his entire time and energies to the supreme goal. He abstains not only from killing harmless animals but even harmful animals. He does not take even a trivial things without the permission of the owner. He does not hold any property at all. Thus, even though self-controlled, he is not free from negligence. There is no appearance of Pratyakhyānavarana kaşāya and only samjualana form of kasāya remains. Due to samjvalana form of kaşāya and existence of negligence, the energy of the soul is not fully expressed. We have already dealt with the conduct of a monk, who begins his life from this guṇasthāna, in the sixth chapter.
7. Apramattasamyata guṇasthānaa :
When negligence, which is the cause of small defects in the sixth stage, is removed, the soul ascends to the seventh gunasthāna. In this stage, the aspirant wins the three stronger types of sleep, viz. nidrānidra, pracatāpracata and styānagyddhi. He
1. Virasena on Satkhandägama, 1.1.14 (Vol. I, p. 175), Also Ibid., 32-33. 2. Ibid., 1.1.15 (Vol. I, p. 178),
Also Gomma fasāra, Jivakānda, 45-48.
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