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principles of the Jaina psychology. Who will fail to observe that this embodies a substantially accurate account of the intricate operations of the faculties of the developing and evolving mind?
THE SOUL OF TWO KINDS The Mundane (Samsārastha) and the Liberated (Mukta) are the two kinds of the Jiya. The soul which is bound in Karma is ‘Mundane' and the Soul which is free from it is 'Liberated'.
GUŅASTHĀNA'S OR STAGES OF SELF-PERFECTION
Although the Mundane souls are bound in Karma, all of them do not belong to one and the same class; there are differences in stages or modifications among them. The Jaina philosophers describe fourteen "stages of development (Guņasthāna's)”, to show these differences. The Gunasthānas are states or stages through which a Bhavya Jiva (i.e. a soul capable of attaining Perfection) advances on his way to liberation. A Mundane soul must necessarily be in one of these fourteen states. The fourteen Guñasthāna's are:-(1) Mithya- Dysti, (2) Sāsādana, (3) Miśra, (4) Asamyata, (5) Deśa-Samyata, (6) Pramatta, (7) Apramatta, (8) Apūrva-karana, (9) Anivsttikaraña, (10) Sūkşma-kaṣāya, (11) Upasanta-kaṣāya, (12) Samkṣīņa-kaṣāya, (13) Sayogakevali and (14) Ayoga-kevali. When the Karma, called the Mithyā-darśana finds its way to the soul and makes it repudiate the Truth and believe in what is untruth, the Jiya has the first Guņasthāna,--the Mithyā-dssti. The soul is in the stage of Sāsādana, when its true faith is destroyed because of the rise, not of the Mithya-Darsana but of the Karma, called the Anantānubandhi. The third stage is called the Misra i.e. the Mixed; the Soul is in this stage when on account of the rise of the Samyak-mithyātva Karma, its faculty of True faith is partly purified and partly stained. When the Kaşāya, called the Apratyākhyānāvaraņa arises in
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