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the types of passions that are being annihilated or suppressed are still gross (Bādar), it is known as Anivrtti Bādar Gunasthāna. Also, as the souls employ the most intense gross passionannihilating method (Anivșttikaraņa), it is also known as Anivrttikarana Gunasthāna. At this stage also the gleaming passions are not completely annihilated and their finest traces still persist. Here, the souls mount the Destructional or the subsidential ladder. Those who mount the Destructional ladder, begin the destruction of the remaining gleaming passions as well. Those that mount the subsidential ladder achieve their suppression, only to raise their heads, at a latter stage, the event that ultimately marks their downfall. 10. Fine Passions Stage (Sūksma Samparāya Gunasthāna) -
This is the tenth spiritual stage. At this stage, too, the remaining very fine traces of greed, the most persistent of passions, are annihilated or subsided according as the soul has mounted the destructional or the subsidential ladder at the ninth stage. Because of the presence of the fine traces of greed-passion this stage is also under the grip of delusion, how-so-ever minute, and remains attached. Once, these traces are also suppressed or destroyed the soul progresses to the higher stage -- 11"" stage if it is on the subsidential ladder and directly to the 12th stage if it is on the destructional one. Also, this is the stage up to which both yoga-- body, mind and speech -- and kasāya-passion are present. After this stage even the greed-passion is absent and so are delusion and attachment. 11. Passion-subsided Detachment Stage (Upaśāntakasāya
Vitarāga Gunasthāna)
This is the eleventh spiritual stage on the scale of spiritual progress, attainable by only those souls that mounted the subsidential ladder at the ninth stage. The souls that achieve complete suppression of the gleaming passions' quartet except
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