Outlines of Jainism

Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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METAPHYSICS : XIV. STAGES OF THE SOUL
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believe in the right path to salvation. From this stage it always passes on to the fourth stage.
2. Sās(v)ādana When, in the fourth stage, there is a manifestation of the four anantānubandhi kashāyas, or the four conduct-infatuating passions, due to false or perverted belief, the soul slips down from the fourth stage to the first. In doing so it passes through the second stage, and the psychical condition in the passage is called sās(v)ādana.
3. Miéru If froin the fourth stage the soul slips down to the first, because of the manifestation of the faith- or perception-infatuating karmas due to blurred or false or mixed perception (samyak, mithya-,or miśra-mohanīya), it passes through the third stage on its downward career to the starting-point.
4. Aviratu-samyaktva * Right perception, or samyaktva, is produced by the suppression of the four passions (anuntānubandhi kushāyas) and one or three kinds of faith-or perceptioninfatuation. One kind of faith-infatuation is in the case of a man who has been in possession of samyaktva ; the three other kinds are for one who has never been in possession of such samyaktva. In this stage the soul has faith in the mokshu-mārga, or the path to salvation, but cannot observe the rules of conduct necessary for the pursuit of it.
Here three kinds of psychical condition may be noticed