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45 first stage are shaped and definite; certain views are held on certain subjects.
In the early stages of this first stage the person has an intense dislike of the truth. When the truth is presented to him he does not believe it at all, nor will he have anything to do with it.
In these stages of development the relation is given between the energies of the eight classes and the impelling forces which cause them.
Delusion (mithyatva), lack of self-control (avirati), passion (kashaya), and other activities of thought, speech, and body (yoga),--the four "causes” mentioned above (pages 36-37),--are all operative in this first stage of development, and so, out of the whole list of energies that can be generated, we may in this stage generate any one (except the one by which a person becomes a master, or those which give us the body (aharaka sharira) used for visiting a higher being]. Thus, in this stage of development we are liable to generate such undesirable states and characteristics as life in hell, life as a being with only one, two, three, or four, instead of with five senses; life as a tree or other stationary being; life as an invisibly minute being (not nigoda); life as a being having a body in common with innumerable other beings (such as a potatoe); also the neuter sex passion; delusion (mithyatva); and a few (four) others. These states are not generated in the stages of development above the first, however. To avoid them we must stop the cause (mithyatva.)
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