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STAGES OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
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2. Pariņāma-mithyatva: It is the mithyatva in some actual state of mind; the mind is actually in some state which you call mithyatva, so that the mind is modified by reason of this mithyatva. There are five kinds, namely, those five which were given among the 55 causes of the generation of karma.
3. Prarupaṇa-mithyatva: It is the speaking of the mithyatva or the teaching of it; you actually say something; your belief is expressed in words, either for yourself or for others. For instance, if you call true dharma false dharma; false dharma true dharma, or that the sacrifice of animals leads to the highest state.
4. Pravartana-mithyätva: It is when you act out your wrong belief; it is the action resulting from the three previous states of mithyatva.
Who decides what is true and what is false ?
Q. "Who is going to decide which is the false and which is the true line of conduct ?"
A. "Then, you are sceptical, you doubt the ability of the soul to know! Consciousness is the final ground."
And, of course, it is by removing the mohaniya karmas that our consciousness comes to be right consciousness and in harmony with the external universe.
THIRD VOW (Sthula-adattādāna-Viramaṇa-Vrata)
Meaning
Sthūla-adattādāna-viramaṇa vrata: dana means taking; datta means given; 'a' means not. Therefore the name of the vow means a resolution to refrain from gross forms of taking what is not given, theft.
The idea in theft is taking other people's property without the consent of the owner. There is the gross form when the thing taken is considered by its owner valuable. And there is the subtle kind [sükṣma], when the thing taken is not considered by its
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