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Another in which only the last three determinant causes work, that is the avirati, the kashaya and the yoga.
Another in which only the last two determinant causes work, that is the kashaya and the yoga.
Another in which only the yoga works.
Then there is the 14th gunasthâna by itself. It lasts only for a few moments. There is neither the mithyâtva, the avirati, the kashầya, nor the yoga working.
So that to work out the karmas, you begin with the mithyâtva and remove it first.
It is important to remember always that, these 14 stages, now about to be described, are in their logical order and not in chronoligical order. In the morning, you may be in a low stage and in the afternoon in a higher one, or vice versa, you may be in a high stage in the morning and in a lower one in the afternoon. The point is that, while in such stages you develope such and such karmas, and while in a high one you develope only certain karmas—but all this comes in course.
I STAGE. Called the Mithyâtva Gunasthâna. It is a state of the same as the first subdivision of the Class 4, or Mohaniya karma. It is a state in which the person has a very intense dislike of the truth, the dislike is so strong that he will not have anything to do with it at all, The karma has no intense as to prevent
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