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(545) On the attainment of mental purification there will be purity in the Leśyās; it should be understood that the subsidence of passions leads to attainment of mental purification.
32. PRECEPTS ON SPIRITUAL PROGRESS
( GUNASTHĀNAS)
(546) Those state, resulting from the fruition etc. of Karmas, by which souls are distinguished are given the name 'guņa' (spiritual stages) by the Omniscients.
(547 & 548) There are fourteen stages in the path of gradual spiritual development; (1) false belief, (2) failing from right faith, (3) mixture of right faith and wrong faith, (4) vowless right faith, (5) partial observance of vows, (6) Non-vigilant observance of vows, (7) violent observance of vows, (8) unique condition of bliss, which has not been experienced before, (9) constant thought-activity (that is meditation), (10) slightest attachment, (11) subsided delusion, (12) destroyed delusion, (13) omniscient with activities, and (14) Omniscient without activity. It should be understood that emancipation is attained in stages.
(549) Having faith in the things existing in a veritable fashion - that is called mithyātva. It is of three forms - viz. that of the form of entertaining a doubt, that of the form of something developed deliberately, that of the form of something noi developed deliberately.
(550) The soul falls down from the peak of the mountain of right faith, with his face towards the plain of wrong faith, and has his right-faith destroyed - this stage of soul is called sāsvādana i. e. having taste of right faith.
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