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rightly, i.e., when we take the twelve previously mentioned vows, we are in the fifth stage.
The remaining stages are greater and greater degrees of development of the soul's own natural qualities, the details of which stages are not of much use to a layman, and they are contained in manuscripts and books not yet translated into English, except a little instruction in Prof. H. Jacobi's translations of 4 Angas in the Sacred Books of the East, Vols. XXII and XLV.
The things done in the sixth stage are among others the practice of the first five vows in a strict and literal way, i.e., the vows of a religious teacher, in contradistinction to the five lesser vows of a layman.
In the seventh stage, there are no transgressions of the vows (apramatta).
In stages eight to ten inclusive, the mildest degree of anger, pride, deceitfulness, and greed, is in the process of disappearing.
In the eleventh stage, the intoxicating energies (mohaniyakarmas) are entirely under control, but not removed. In the twelfth, they are removed.
In the thirteenth, permanent omniscience is reached, and the first, second, fourth, and eighth classes of foreign energies (karmas) have disappeared.
In the fourteenth stage, the last cause of foreign energies (yoga) disappears; it is only a momentary stage, and the individual reaches liberation ("ascends up to his native seat").
As a rule, one has to go through the monk life before reaching liberation; but there are, it is said, instances of
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