________________
Verse 104
Guņasthāna - fourteen stages of spiritual development:
1. mithyādựşti – deluded 2. sāsādanasamyagdụsţi – downfall 3. samyagmithyādrsţi – mixed right and wrong belief 4. asamyatasamyagdrsti – vowless right belief 5. samyatāsamyata - partial vows 6. pramattasamyata – imperfect vows 7. apramattasamyata – perfect vows 8. apūrvakaraņa - new thought-activity 9. anivrttibādara-sāmparāya - advanced thought-activity 10. sūkşmasāmparāya - slightest delusion 11. upaśānta-kaṣāya-subsided delusion 12. kşīņa-kaṣāya - destroyed delusion 13. sayogakevalī – Omniscient with vibration 14. ayogakevali – non-vibratory Omniscient
Souls released from the cycle of wandering are the emancipated souls - the Siddha.
Excerpted from: Jain, Vijay K. (2017), “Soul Substance (jīva dravya) – As Expounded In
Dravyasamgraha", Prakrit International Conference, Shravanabelagola (Karnataka), India, 3-6 November, 2017.
Ācārya Kundakunda’s Rayaņasāra: मिस्सोत्ति बहिरप्पा तरतमया तुरिय अंतरप्प जहण्णा । संत्तोत्तिमज्झिमंतर खीणुत्तर परमजिणसिद्धा ॥
(88€)
Those in the first three stages of spiritual development are the extroverted-souls (bahirātmā). Progressively thereafter – as purity of the soul gets refined - those in the fourth stage
167
