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THE PRACTICAL DHARMA
Main features of the fourteen stages.
Serial number.
Names of gunasthānas.
Characteristics.
Mithyātva.
Gross ignorance.
Sāsādana.
Vanishing Faith, c.e., the condition of the mind while actually falling down from the fourth to the first stage.
Miśra.
Mixed faith and false belief.
Avirata-samyaga
dộişti.
Right Faith, unaccompanied by Right Conduct.
Desavirata.
Commencement of Right Conduct; the house
holder's stage.
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Pramatta.
Asceticism and observance of vows, though tinged
with pramada (carelessness or laziness). This is the first stage of life as a muni, i.e., of homelessness.
Apramatta.
Elimination of pramāda; vigilant sainthood ; the
commencement of the realisation of the joy of freedom.
Apuroa karana.
Noted for the new channels of thought, thrown
open by the purification of the mind and the quiescence of the elements of disturbance.
Anioritti karana.
More advanced thought-activity, i.e., meditation.
Sukshma sām
pāraya.
Only very slight greed left to be controlled or des
troyed.
Upašāntamoha.
Kshinamoha.
Quiescence of the remaining traces of greed. Desirelessness, i.e., the complete eradication
greed, hence perfection in Right Conduct.
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Sayoga-kevali.
Omniscience, hence the perfection of Right
Knowledge, and the realisation of the state of jīvan-mukti, that is, liberation in the embodied state. In the case of Tirthankaras, revelation also takes place in this stage.
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Ayoga-kevali.
The cessation of the activity of the three yogas
i.e., the channels of āsrava; Nirvāņa !
