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samyaktva is also possible in all the four gatis. So the four bhāvas viz., kṣāyika-bhāva, ksāyopaśamika-bhāva, audayika-bhāva and pārināmika-bhāva are present in those gods, hellish beings or animals, who possess kṣāyika samyaktva without kṣāyika caritra, in those non-omniscient human beings who possess kṣāyika samyaktva without kṣāyika caritra, and are not on the ladder of subsidence or in the eleventh stage of spiritual evolution, and also in those non-omniscient human beings who possess kṣāyika samyaktva with kṣāyika caritra.
Aupaśamika, kṣāyika, kṣāyopaśamika, audayika and pāriņāmika-all these five bhāvas are possible in one soul or being. Which type of soul or being? That soul or being who possesses kṣāyika samyaktva and at the same time is on the ladder of subsidence (i.e., and at the same time who has attained the eleventh stage of spiritual evolution by the ladder of subsidence).
The possible udaya (rise or manifestation), kşaya (destruction), upaśama (subsidence) and kşayopaśama (destruction-cum-subsidence) of the concerned karmas take place depending on the substance (dravya), place (kşetra), time (kāla), state (bhāva) and birth (bhava).
In this connection, let us think about the udaya (rise or manifestation) of the asātavedanīya (pain-giving karma), a type of vedaniya-karma (feelingproducing karma). The manifestation of this karma depends on the substances like a serpent, poison, a thorn, bad food and drink, etc., on the places like an unfortunate house, bad building, sandy or gritty or uneven ground and jail, on times like disturbing period or viral seasons, on states like bad temperament, worried nature, old age, diseased condition, and on births like animal birth, birth in a poor family, etc.
Now we think about the destruction of the same karma. It depends on the substances like the true spiritual teacher, etc., on the places of pilgrimage and other holy places, on the favourable times, on the states of the form of right knowledge and right conduct, and on the proper human birth.
Let us take up mithyātva-mohaniya karma. The manifestation of this karma depends on the substance of the form of wicked person of perverse convictions and wrong knowledge, on the uncultured places or countries,
1. It is because the possibility of aupaśamika caritra is not accepted in the ninth and
the tenth stages of spiritual evolution. 2. It is because it is only that human being who has attained the eleventh spiritual stage
can gain aupaśamika caritra.
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