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Q. Which is that bhāva, (volition) of the five stated earlier, in this third stage? A. There is this kşayopașamik bhāva (destruction-cum-subsidential).
Q. What is the relationship of this kşayopașamik bhāva with living being crossing from mithyātva (wrong) to samyag-mithyātva (right-cumwrong) gunasthana (spiritual stage) ? A. Samyag-mithyātva is acquired due to [i] udayabhāvi kaşāya (nonfruitional destruction), aupamāsika (subsidence) all-destroying spārdhaka*** (large group of karmic atoms - supervariform) of mithyātva-karma (wrong-karma); and of the karma of right-cum-wrongfaith. Hence the relation.
*** The karmas are not ultimate atoms but are larger groups called varganas (variorums) and still larger varganas are called spardhakas (supervariforms). And the karma may be in the form of either of these two depending upon the intensity with which they are earned.
Q. As there is karmic reap from samyag-mithyātva, why the audayika bhāva (fruitional volition) has been stated in this stage ? A. Just as there occurs a total destruction of samvyaktva (right faith) on account of mithyātva (of wrong faith), there is no total destruction of right faith on account of samyag-mithyātva. Therefore, this third gunasthana is called kşayopaşamika bhāva (destruction-cumsubsidential volition) instead of calling it audavika.
Q. When the reap of samyag-mithyātva (right-cum-wrong faith) does not totally destroy the right faith, why it has been referred as alldestroying (in terms of supervariform)? .. A. Karma generated by samyag-mithyātva only limits the totality of right faith. It is with this point of view that right-cum-wrong faith has been called all-destroying. It is also said in the GJ verse 22: "Just as a mixture of curd and jaggery cannot be separated into constituents, mixed bhāvas in the form of right-cum-wrong faith can not be separated. Hence, mixed volition is the third stage of mixed faiths.”
Following verse describes the fourth guṇasthāna of asanyata (nonrestrained) samyagdraști (right faith):
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