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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS
may be in a high stage in the morning and in a lower one in the afternoon. The point is that, while in such stages you develop such and such karmas, and while in a high one you develop only certain karmas — but all this comes in course.
FIRST STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT
(Mithyātva-Gunasthāna)
Meaning
It is called the mithyätva guṇasthāna. It is a state the same as the first subdivision of the Class 4, or mohanīya karma. It is a state in which the person has a very intense dislike of the truth, the dislike is so strong that he will not have anything to do with it at all. The karma is so intense as to prevent the possibility of believing the truth at all. It is the same as the above named (class 4. subdivision No. 1), only the point of view now is different. The point of view, here, is the generation of fresh karma. There it was simply describing the characteristic or nature of the karma. Karmas liable to be generated
In this gunasthāna the living being is liable to generate any of the following karmas, namely :
1. Any of the jñānāvaraṇīya karmas, that is of 5 kinds. 2. Any of the darśanāvaraniya karmas, that is of 9 kinds. 3. Either of the two vedaniya karmas, that is of 2 kinds.
4. Any of the mohanīya karmas, except the subdivisions Nos. 2 and 3,because these are never generated, they are simply milder forms of the activity of the subdivision No. 1 (called mithyātva mohaniya karma.) We generate the mithyātva mohaniya and in its working out it may manifest as subdivision 2 or subdivision 3, (called respectively miśra mohaniya karma and samyaktva mohanīya karma.) That makes 26 kinds liable to be generated.
5. Either of ihe 4 āyuḥ karmas, namely 4 kinds.
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