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do not pass through this experience or first process at all. But this experience may be felt an infinity of times and still the living being may not pass into the next or second process. A muhurta, as already mentioned, is 48 minutes
English time, and 30 muhurtas are 2nd Process
therefore, one day. If the living being can succeed in reducing by only 48 minutes, this one hundred billion years maximum duration of the karmas, he is then in the 2nd process, called apurvakarana which has to be passed through in order to obtain the samyaktva condition. This second process consists in the manifestation of a desire to remove the worst degree of anger, of pride, of deceitfulness, and of greed. The first time this desire is experienced shows that this surther reduction in the maximum duration has been effected. The literal meaning is not previously' ; that is, this desire has not been previously experienced. The third process is the actual control of the worst
degree of anger, of pride, or deceitful3rd Process.
ness, and of greed. Deceit is the conflict between the thought and the action, as already mentioned. The worst degree of anger is that which lasts the whole life time, and the way to test ourselves as to whether we have reached the and process (apurva-karana) is by considering and seeing whether there is any person, we know towards whom we are chronically angry; and then the
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