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process occurs in man. The succession in woman is : third sex-pasison, male sex-passion, joking etc.; in napuṁsaka is : female sex-passion, male sex-passion, joking etc.' Thereupon follows the suppression of the second and third kinds of deceit and of the sañjvalana deceit, and then that of the second and third kinds of greed. After that the sañjvalana greed becomes divided into three parts: the first two of these, the being suppresses simultaneously, the third again is divided into a measurable number of pieces, which are suppressed gradually piece by piece. Through this long process he becomes a sükşma samparāya (10th stage). When the last piece of greed is suppressed, he is an upaśānta moha (11th stage). On this stage, the jiva remains, in the maximum for antarmuhurta and in the minimum for one samaya. No sooner has this time passed than he falls down from this stage and sinks into even the second guṇasthāna under certain circumstances. Kşapaka Śreņi :
The kşapaka śreņi leads to the destruction of karmas. The person who has ascended it, annihilates successively the different species of karma that exist in potentia, becomes in the end quite free from karma, and thereby achieves the highest goal – salvation.
A person exceeding eight years of age and possessing the best firmness of the joints is capable of ascending this series. First of all, he annihilates the four life-long passions, then the three species of belief-obscuring karma. If he has bound äyus (age) and dies before wrong belief is completely annihilated, in his new existence he can eventually bind anew the four life-long passions, since wrong belief, which is their germ, still exists. If, however, wrong belief is destroyed, this is impossible. If he has bound ayus but does not die immediately after the annihilation of the seven mohaniya karmas, he is satisfied with what he has attained, and for the moment does not undertake any endeavour to annihilate the
1. Avaśyaka-niryukti, 116; Višesăvaśyaka-bhāsya, 1288.
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