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Phot possible to remove the avirati first, or the
ashảya or the yoga. Then the next in order, is the Ivirati, which must be removed before the kashaya, and the last to be removed is the yoga. So that, in any person, where there is mithyâtva there is also lack of control of the thought and senses, there is also the list of 25 kashayas, either dormant or operating ; and there are the 15 yogas.
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-sthâna or stages of development. Guna means virtue, development, the coming 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 which all the four causes of karma work, i. e. the mithyâtva, the avirati, the kashầya, and the yoga.
* This chapter is not completed owing to the illness of late Mr, Gandhi.(Editor)
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