Book Title: Ratnamuni Smruti Granth
Author(s): Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma
Publisher: Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti

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________________ OUTLINES OF KARMA IN JAINISM three intuition-obscuring karmas and thirteen personality-determining karmas Then he annihilates what still remains of the two species of passions. Thereupon follows the annihilation of the third and female sex-passions, of joking, liking disliking, sorrow, fear, disgust, male sex-passion, and of sanjualana anger, pride, and deceit1 After this, he leaves the ninth stage (anivrtti gunasthana, and sinks into the tenth stage (suksma sanmparaya gunasthana), where he successively annihilates the sanjualana greed, divided into pieces. As soon as the last piece of greed disappears, all passions are destroyed and the highest stage of the series is reached The jiva is now a ksin akasaya (12th stage) Then he annihilates the two kinds of sleep nidra and pracala), there pon the five veilings of knowledge, the four veilings of intuition, and five species of power-hindening karma. Then he becomes a sayogi kevalin (13th stage) who still wanders for some time on the earth and thereafter attains salvation. 1 This process is for man, for woman and third sex-the same change as in the upasama stent 2 Karma-grantha, V,99. 97

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