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stated. Why is incontinence stated to be existing in Asanyat Gunasthana (state of vowless right belief)?
Answer: The Anataanubandhi etc. kinds are not from the intense or feeble passions point of view, because whether indulgence is found in intense passion or feeble passion, the rise of Anantaanubandhi, etc., all the four types of passions, is found şimultaneously. There the highest Sparddhakas of all the four types of passions are stated to be uniform.
Here the specific point is that, that type of intense rise of Apratyakhyāna, etc., which is found in the absence of Anantaanubandhi, the same type is not found on its disappearance. Likewise, that type of intense rise of Pratyakhyāna and Sanjwalana type of passion which is found in the presence of Apratyakhyāna, the same type is not found on its disappearance. And the intense rise of Sanjwalana which is found in the presence of Pratyakhyana, the same degree of intense rise is not found when it(Sanjwalana) alone is found existing. Therefore, on disappearance of Anantaanubandhi, although passions become somewhat feeble, yet that degree of feeble. ness is not evolved owing to which the corresponding state of soul may be given the name of Charitra (conduct). Because the degrees of intensity & feebleness in passions are of innumerable types. In them, the posterior states of passions are less intense as compared to the anterior states, but conventionally all these states of passions are categorised in three limits. Most of the earlier states are stated to be of incontinent form. Many of the states found thereafter are stated to be of partial continence (Desha Sanyama) form and the states found thereafter are stated to be of Sakal Sanyama - complete continence form. In all the aforesaid states of passions, those which are found from the first Gunasthana up to the fourth Gunasthana, all are of incontinence (Asanyama) form only. Therefore, in spite of feeble states of passions, the corresponding states of the soul cannot be named as states of Charitra (conduct or continence).
Although from realistic point of view, the reduction in passion amounts to part evolution of conduct (Charitra), nevertheless, from conventional point of view, where such reduction of passions is found whereby one accepts Shravaka Dharma (partial continence & vows
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