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(a period of up to fortyeight minutes). A soul capable of attaining liberation can attain this type of samyaktva at the most five times before the attainment of liberation. For the first time, on account of the subsidence of four passions of anantānubandhi type as also on account the subsidence of darśanamohaniya-karma, it is attained by a soul afflicted with beginningless mithyātva. After that, it can be attained at the most four times, because before the attainment of liberation one can ascend the ladder of subsidence at the most four times. [The ascent on the ladder of subsidence consists in the process of subsidence of four passions of anantānubandhi type as also of subsidence of three types of darśanamohanīya-karma.]
A living being can attain kṣāyopaśamika samyaktva innumerable times. The minimum duration of this type of samyaktva is an antarmuhurta, while its maximum duration is a period measuring somewhat more than sixtysix sāgaropamal years.
Ksāyika samyaktua once attained never disappears. From the standpoint of an embodied state of the soul possessed of this samyaktva, its minimum duration is an antarmuhurta and its maximum duration is a period somewhat more than thirtythree sägaropama years.
In kṣāyopaśamika samyaktva, there is vision of truth, that is, there is firm faith in truth or in spiritually beneficial fundamental categories. But it is associated with slight impurity of the form of attachment for one's name or for what one regards as one's own. As for example, he is attached more to the deity of the temple built by him than to one of another built by someone else.? And of many supreme deities, he is devoted more to one than to others. Again, he has attachment for the external means, forms and rituals of true religion and mistakes true religion for them; not only that but for them he gives vent to his passions. He has attachment for his name and fame, for antiquity, for a particular spiritual teacher, for a particular chapter of monks, etc. And equanimity, easily attainable
1. A sägaropama is one thousand billion palyopamas. A palyopama is an innumerable (not
infinite, but having a limit) quantity of years, so great that it cannot be numbered. An innumerable quantity is a limited quantity and will in time be exhausted. An infinite quanity will never be exhausted. So sāgaropama is also a type of asamkhyāta
(innumerable) number. 1. svakärite'rhaccaityādau devo'yam me'nyakārite /
anyasyāyam iti bhrāmyan mohác chrāddho'pi cestate //-Gommatasara, sivakanda-tikā. 2. same'by anantaśaktitve sarveşām arhatām ayam /
devo'smai prabhur eşo'smā ity ästhā sudyśām api /-Gommațasāra, Jivakānda-tīkā.
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