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darśana between the fourth and the seventh Guņasthāna's. The Kṣāyika Çāritra is manifested when the Soul is in the Twelfth Gunasthāna. The remaining seven Kṣāyika Bhāva's appear in the thirteenth stage when the soul attains the Kevala-jñāna or omniscience. One characteristic of every Kṣāyika Bhāva is that it remains attached to the Soul, even in its state of Emancipation. This is also true of the Aupaśamika Bhāva's. Of the Kṣāyopaśamika Bhāva's, this can be said of Samyak-darśana only.
THE SOUL OF SIX KINDS Sıx CLASSES OF THE JIVA, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF ITS ORGANS OF KNOWLEDGE
Souls are divided into six classes in accordance with the number of the organs of their knowledge, viz:(1) Ekendriya or one-sensed, (2) Dvindriya or two-sensed, (3) Trīndriya or three-sensed, (4) Çaturindriya or four-sensed, (5) Amanaska-Pañçendriya or mindless five-sensed and (6) Samanaska-Pañçendriya or minded five-sensed.
The word 'Indra' means 'one who has excellent wealth'; it thus means the soul which is possessed of incomparable attainments. 'Indriya' is that which is a mark, a sign or an instrument of 'Indra', the soul. The Indriya's are thus the organs of knowledge, the instruments, that is to say, by means of which the soul acquires knowledge. The Indriya's are primarily divided into two classes viz:Dravyendriya or material organ and Bhāvendriya or subjective organ. Nirvṛtti and 'Upakaraṇa' are the two sub-classes of the former; each of these two again has two parts or aspects, respectively called Vähya or external and Āntara or internal. 'Nirvịtti' is that part of the senseorgans which is operative in the matter of the generation of knowledge and 'Upakaraṇa' is that which protects Nirvștti, the main or principal part of the sense-organ. When on account of the annihilation or the mitigation of knowledgeenveloping Karma, a part (Pradeśa) of the soul becomes
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