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DOCTRINE OF KARJA
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greed becomes divided into three parts. the first two of these, the being suppresses simultaneously, the third, again is divided into a measurable number of pieces, which are suppressed gradually piece by piece. Through this long process he becomes a siksına samparāva (10th stage). When the last piece of greed is suppressed, he is an upaśānta moha (ith stage ). On this stage, the jita remains, in the maximum for less than 18 minutes, in the minimum for one sasnava. No sooner has this time passed than he falls down from this stage and sinks into even the second gunasthāna under certain circumstances. KŞAPAKA ŚRENI
The ksapaka śreņi leads to the destruction of karmas. The person who has ascended it, annihilates successively the different species of karma that exist in potentia, becomes in the end quite free from karma, and thereby achieves the highest goal --- salvation.
A person exceeding eight years of age, possessing the best firmness of the joints is capable of ascending this series. First of all, he annihilates the four life-long passions, then the three species of belief-obscuring karma. If he has bound 125 (age) and dies before wrong belief is completely annihilated, in his new existence, he can eventually bind anew the four life-long passions since wrong belief which is their germ still exists. If, however, wrong belief is destroved, this is impossible. If he has bound ãyus, but does not die immediately after the annihilation of the seven mohanīva karmas, he is satisfied with what he has attained, and for the moment does not undertake any endeavour to annihilate the other karmas. He experiences still three or four births before he attains liberation. If he reaches the series without having bound līyus, he proceeds immediately to the destruction of the still remaining conduct-obscuring karmas. For this purpose, he performs three processes, of which the first falls into the seventh stage, the second into the eighth stage, and the third into the ninth stage. During the second process ( a pūrva karana! he begins simultaneously with the annihilation of the four apratyākhyānāvaraṇa and pratvīklıvīnūžur'ana passions. When these have half disappeared, he meanwhile destroys three intuition-obscuring karmas and thirteen personality-determining karmas. Then he annihilates what still remains of the two species
