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some traces of persistent greed-passion at the ninth stage and even the traces of greed at the tenth stage come to this stage of complete passion-subsidence and consequent state of complete detachment, albeit temporary. However, this stage can last only for a maximum period of less than a Muhurta, after which it starts its descent in the same way as it ascended due to the assertion of the suppressed passions and resultant attachment, aversion and delusion. This descent can be checked at any stage depending upon the strength or weakness of the subject's volitional disposition. However, the soul that has achieved permanent rightvision in the past does not slide back beyond the fourth stage but the one that had attained only subsidential or destructosubsidential right-vision may also revert back to the first stage of falsehood and delusion. It must be understood that there is no way in which a soul can progress further from this stage. It is because any further spiritual progress requires complete separation of deluding karma from the soul, an accomplishment that is possible only when the passions have been completely annihilated and not merely suppressed. Also, those souls that mounted the destructional ladder at the ninth stage do not even touch this stage. . They rise, directly, to the twelfth stage of Delusion-destroyed Detachment Stage. The duration of this stage is one samaya. 12. Delusion-Destroyed Detachment Stage (Ksīnamoha
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This is the twelfth spiritual stage on the scale of virtue stations, attainable by only those souls that mounted the Destructional ladder at the ninth stage and thereby achieved complete destruction of the gleaming passions' quartet except some traces of persistent greed-passion at the ninth stage and even the traces of greed at the tenth stage. The complete annihilation of the passions results in total freedom from delusion induced by them and hence a state of complete detachment from everything worldly prevails and the subject concentrates only on
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