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KARMA PRILOSOPHY
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the vigoda are in that indefinite which is the state of existence has begun.
state of existence, before development
· When once, out of the indefinite mithyatva state, the living being never goes back to it; if it goes back to the bigoda state it goes back as a nigoda of a different kind, namely, having vyakta or definite mithyatva. There are therefore two kinds of nigoda, one with indefinite mithyatva whose developinent has not begun, and the other kind with definite mithyatva whose development has begun and who are therefore in the first stage of development, or mithyatva gunasthana.
The answer to the very natural question which arises here, “What starts the development ?" would be something like this: in a whirlpool some bit of stick or paper or other natter may in the surging of the water get to one side and become separated from the rest, be caught by the wind, and dried by the sun; and so some such thing may happen to a nigoda which would awaken just a spark of the latent potential power of development.
It is also the theory of the Jains that as a soul passes from the embodied to the liberated state, a
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