Jainism For Beginners Level 02

Author(s): Sayampurnashreeji
Publisher: Sayampurnashreeji

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SASWADAN SAMYAGDRISHTI
- Gunasthanak The stage of having tasted righteousness.
commences. The development of the soul takes place in accordance with the virtues and vices or merits and defects present in it. Rag- attachment, Dvesh-hatred and Mohinfatuation are the three principles that make the soul impure and polluted. The speed of Sadhana or endeavor keeps changing in accordance with the intensity or lightness of these three principles. The low/debased condition is the soul but the intensity of Rag. Dvesh & Moh. The highest and sublime state of the soul is marked by the complete eradication and disappearance of these three defects. The stages between these two states are called Gunasthanaks. (Behavioral and Psychologicalcharacteristics at that stage.)
aswadan Samyagdrishti Guna
sthanak is the name given to the stage of the soul that has once tasted righteousness - the right path but has returned from there for want of faith in Tatvas - principles. This stage is called so because the soul in that stage has once tasted righteousness.
MITHYADRISHTL
- Gunasthanak The stage of false vision or delusion.
hinking that right, is wrong and & thinking that truth is untruth. In other words. Mithyathva drishti is that view or truth which is unnatural. There is no soul in which the eradication of karma has taken place to some extent or the other. If there is partial purity or clarity in Mithyadrishti it is called Gunasthanak.
JAIN HOUSEHOLDERS (SHRAVAKS & SHRAVIKAS
MISHRA -Gunasthanak
The mixed stage
he Condition of the soul that
lives in this state is really strange. It has neither the view of righteousness nor the view of delusion. Its intellect always keeps swinging and vacillating between the two points. It is neither high; nor low; and it keeps moving between the two states like a pendulum.