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Questioner: Does that become a layer too?
Dadashri: Yes, you remove the stain with the 'soap,' but what about the residual stains the soap leaves behind? So that is pratyakhyan avaran.
So when it becomes clean this way, it is pratyakhyan avaran. If mistakes occur, despite doing pratyakhyan, that is called pratyakhyan avaran kashay. That is because pratikraman was done in bulk.
Sanjvalan Kashay When there is constant pratikraman-pratyakhyan, it is called pratyakhyan avaran. That is the sixth gunasthanak; or gunthanu (spiritual stage). One is doing pratyakhyan of the past apratyakhyan. When can we say that the ascetic has reached the sixth gunasthanak of the real (nischay) and of relative (vyavahar)? It is when pratikraman-pratyakhyan occurs every moment. The pratyakhyan of the past life comes into unfolding today and, consequently, one is able to renounce naturally
So what is the sixth gunasthanak? Kashays become effective. They become evident in their effect. They are not just concepts, but their effect is visible. They become effective despite pratikraman, therefore, despite pacchkhani (pratyakhyani) pratikraman, they still remain. Because it is a large karmic tuber, it is considered pratyakhyani. It is a pratyakhyan avaran. But if it comes into maturation from within, but does not become effective, expressed externally, then it is considered sanjvalan. It will not cause one to slap someone, or something like that. There is suffering within in the pratyakhyan avaran. But when one experiences samadhi (absolutely unaffected state) within, that is when one will understand what all this is about. So this is completely a different thing.
Anger, pride, deceit and greed are pratyakhyani, meaning
others will not know about them. Even a clever person will not be able to measure through his intellect (buddhi) whether or not a person has anger within him. Only the person who has it will be aware of it. That is pratyakhyani! So, what can you say about the one for whom the five major vows (mahavrats) are natural in his conduct? It would be more than enough if there was one such person in this current time cycle. Those pratyakhyani kashays are gone and, therefore, only the sanjvalan kashays remain.
The Sixth to the Ninth Gunasthanaks
The vyavahar (worldly interaction) gunasthanak (stage of spiritual development) qualities of everyone will keep on changing. Some will come into the fourth, some into the fifth and some into the sixth gunasthanak. Before, their kashays were apratyakhyan, apratikraman and now, because of alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan, even the apratyakhyan avarans have gone.
Those who have heavy 'files in the worldly life are considered to be at the sixth gunasthanak.
What is the sixth gunasthanak in the worldly life interaction? It is not the one where one renounces a wife or a husband, but it is the one where there is no apratyakhyan avaran. You see the same thing again even after doing pratyakhyan; it is like seeing another layer of an onion. That is pratyakhyan avaran. If ever that pratyakhyan avaran goes away for an hour, then that is apramat gunasthanak, and that is the seventh gunasthanak. And rarely there comes the eighth gunasthanak where there is nothing but bliss! That is called apurva gunasthanak. But one cannot cross over to the ninth gunasthanak as long as there is sexuality (stri parigraha).
Total Absence of Any Kashay There should not be the slightest of anger in this body.
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