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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS
TENTH STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT
(Sūkşma-samparāya'-guṇasthāna)
While gradually undergoing supression or annihilation, when all the conduct-deluding karma gets suppressed or annihilated and the subtle greed (attachment) alone remains to disturb the soul, this stage is attained. Here the soul is practically free from all the four kaṣāyas (passions), except greed of a very slight degree.
ELEVENTH STAGE OF
DEVELOPMENT
(Upaśāntamoha-gunasthāna)
In the case of those who have started in the ninth stage suppressing the conduct-deluding karmas of the form of four passions (kaşāya), when they completely suppress them, they are in this stage. This is the reason why the stage is given the name “upaśāntamoha'. The subtle greed which was active in the previous stage is also suppressed in this stage. Thus at this stage there is total suppression of all the four passions. Those who have attained this stage invariably fall down to some lower stage on the rise of the suppressed passions.
TWELFTH STAGE OF
DEVELOPMENT (Kșiņamoha-guṇasthāna)
But in the case of those who have started in the ninth stage annihilating the conduct-deluding karmas of the form of passions, 1. "Samparāya' means passions (kaşāya) in general, but in the present context it means
a particular passion, viz. greed.
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