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THE PRACTICAL PATH.
A glance at the above table would suffice to show that the liabitity to fall back to the earlier stages is competely shaken off only on reaching the state of desirelessness at the twelfth gunasthana, since greed, the mother of the remaining three forms of kashayas and the root of all other minor passions and emotions, is eradicated only at the moment of stepping from the sukshmasâmpraya to the kshinamoha state. Other forms of passions and emotions, such as superciliousness, envy and the like, are really the progeny of the four principal kashayas alluded to above, and have been specifically treated for this reason; they disappear with the drying up of their respective sources. complete eradication of greed simply means their total destruction and the full manifestation of all the divine attributes and properties of the soul, now become deified by the destruction of its ghâtiâ karmas.
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It only remains to study the working of the diverse karma prakritis in respect of their engendering, fruition and elimination. Obviously, all these energies cannot become active at one and same time, since some of them are counterindicated by those of an antagonistic nature which may be in actual play, e.g., one cannot have a human and an animal body at the same time, though a human being may contract the liability to the reborn as an animal, and vice versa. Hence, bandha does not signify immediate fruition of karmas, but only the liability to undergo certain experiences at some future moment of time. This liability is contracted, as already pointed out, in consequence of the fusion of spirit and matter, and remains in abeyance till it find a suitable
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