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STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT*
This, now, is from the point of view of generating karmas, as distinguished from the point of view we have previously had of the nature of the karmas. The matter now is about the generation of karma.
In describing which causes generate any particular karma stages are made use of as follows:
There are 14 guna-sthana or stages of development. Guna means virtue, development, the comming out of the real nature and essence of the soul. Sthana means stage.
These 14 may be roughly divided into 4 classifications ( or five, see following ), namely: (i. e. one for each cause).
One in waich all the four causes of karma work, i. e. the mithyatva, the avirati, the kashaya, and the yoga.
Another in which only the last three determinant causes work, that is the avirati, the ka shaya and tbe yoga.
* This chapter is not completed owing to the illcess of late Mr. Gandhi.-(Editor.)
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