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The nature of the control here spoken of is such that these particular mohaniva karmas do not rise or become active. The man whose anantānubandhi anger is controlled does not get angry in that intense degree.
4th GUNA STHĀNA.
OR Avirati-samyak-drishti-guna-sthana.
Drishti means attitude. It is a noun. Samyak is an adjective and means right or proper. Avirati means no control (here it means lack of control except of the anantānubandhis. No control of the sense pleasures and other karmas than the anantānubandhis of the mohaniya division). Guna means quality, and sthana means stage.
All persons in this fourth guna-sthāna have control of the darshana and anantānubandhi mohaniya karmas (or kashayas). Besides this factor, there is the other factor of samyaktva. So the charactertistics of this fourth stage are ;
(a). Lack of control. (of sense pleasures &c.) (b) Right attitude. Kashāya means that which soils.
The lack of control here is also lack of control of the sense pleasures. Persons in this stage, while they do not have this self-control, still they do
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