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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS
The third process is the actual control of the worst degree of anger, of pride, of deceitfulness, and of greed. Deceit is the conflict between the thought and the action, as already mentioned. The worst degree of anger is that which lasts the whole life time, and the way to test ourselves as to whether we have reached the 2nd process (apūrva-karaṇa ) is by considering and seeing whether there is any person we know towards whom we are chronically angry; and then the thought that we ought not after all to be so, would show that we were in the second process. The 3rd process is the actual control of the worst anger, pride, deceitfulness, and greed. The end of the apurvakarana is the beginning of the anivṛtti-karana.
When these three processes have been passed through, then the 'knot' is cut, so to speak, and the lowest kind of samyaktva is reached. The 'knot' is the attack upon us of our inborn likes and dislikes, more especially as to convictions regarding conduct, (that it is wrong to kill, etc.) When these three processes have been passed through, then the three darsana mohaniya karmas and the four worst degrees, just mentioned, are controlled or inoperative.
The worst degree of the four degrees which were mentioned of anger, pride, deceitfulness and greed, is called the 'anantānubandhi' degree. 'An' means no, 'anta' means end, anubandhi' means bound as cause and effect. The whole word means 'life-long effect'. Anantānubandhi anger is that anger which lasts the whole life time.
When the samyaktva is reached or appears, mithyātva or delusion is controlled.
Mithyatva and its two main kinds
Mithyatva (or delusion, or false belief, or false conviction regarding conduct, e.g, that it would be right to kill) is of several kinds, but can be divided into two, namely:
1. Avyakta or idefinite mithyātva
2. Vyakta or definite mithyätva
There is a class of living with which the universe is packed, so that there is not an inch of space anywhere where these
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