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Dravyalingi Muni these are in lesser measure due to which the incontinent and partially continent true believers can take birth up to sixteenth heaven only and the Dravyalingi Muni goes up to the last Graiveyaka heaven. Therefore, you may regard a Dravyalingi Muni to be inferior to a Bhavalingi Muni (true monk of 6th-7th spiritual stage); but how can he (Dravyalingi Muni) be treated to be inferior to incontinent (Asanyat) and partially continent(Desh Sanyat) true believers?
Answer: The incontinent and partially continent true believers do have proclivity of passions but in faith they have no intention of indulgingin any type of passions; whereas a Dravylingi Muni is found possessing the intention of indulging in auspicious passions, knows them in faith to be beneficial. Therefore, from the belief point of view, he(the Dravyalingi) has more passions than an incontinent(vowless) true believer also.
Moreover, the auspicious form of proclivity of Yogas i.e., activity of mind, speech & body is found more in a Dravyalingi Muni and the specific difference in the bondage of auspicious-inauspicious type of karmas in Aghati karmas (non-obscuring karmas) is caused in accordance with auspicious-inauspicious Yogas (activities), that is why he goes up to the last Graiveyaka heaven, but it is not at all efficacious; because the Aghati-karmas do not obscure the main qualities of the soul. What is there if he secures high or low status due to their rise? Those are merely the external associated changing facets of the mundane existence only, whereas he is a soul; therefore, the lessening of the effectiveness of Ghati-karmas (obscuring karmas) which are the obscurers of the main qualities of the soul is desirable.
The bondage of those Ghati-karmas is not according to the external proclivity, but it is according to the inner strength of passions. Therefore, in comparison to a Dravyalingi Muni, the bondage of Ghatikarmas is less in incontinent(Asanyat) and partially continent(DeshSanyat) true believers. The bondage of all types of Ghati-karmas to a Dravyalingi Muni occurs with more duration and fruition, whereas the bondage of Mithyatva (faith-deluding) and Anantanubandhi (intensest type of passions) karmas, etc. is not at all caused to incontinent and partially continent true believers; the bondage of remaining
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