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9th Guna-sthāna. (Anuyritti-bādar-guna-sthāna). 'Apuvritta' ineans supplementary to the preceding 'guna-sthāna'. 'Badara' means 'comprehensive'.
When one (here a monk) has his thoughts or reflections guileless and purified to a very great extent, he is said to have achieved this 9th 'guna-sthāna'.
Six 'prakritis' or forms of the 'mohaniya karma' viz., (1) mirth (2) pain (3) pleasure (4) fear (5) sorrow and (6) hatred having been destroyed, during the latter part of the 8th stage, have no chance,' in this 9th stage, to rise again.
10th GUNA-STHÃNA. (Sukshma-samparāya-guna-sthāna).
During the latter part of the 9th stage, unger, pride and frandulence-three of the 'sanjvalana' kind of 'kashaya', havipg been totally extinct, and also at the same time, all the three (male, female and neuter) sex passions having been out of existence, this tenth guna-sthāna is secured, attained.
In this 'guna-sthana' in the beginning, greediness is latent in a very minute degree. But it is totally extirpated eventually during its latter period, i. e. about the end, because of the most purified reflections or thoughts of the individual.
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