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(551) The mixed stage of Samyaktva (Right faith) and mithyātva (wrong faith) which can, in no way, be split up into right and wrong beliefs of just as a mixed taste of curd and treacle can not be reffered to separately as sour or sweet, is known as miśra-bhāva.
(552) He who has not vowed to abstain from indulgence in the senses and from hurting the mobile and immobile living beings; although he has firm faith in the doctrines propounded by the Jina. This stage is said to be of a person of right vision without abstinence (Avirata-Samyagdṛṣṭi).
(553) One who desists from a killing of the mobile living beings but not from that of the immobile ones and yet who has unwavering faith in Jinas is called viratävirata or desavirata) i. e. partial observer of vows.
(554) One who has adopted the Great Vows, is equipped with all virtuous qualities and good conduct, often exhibits negligence in a manifest or a non-manifest form and hence whose conduct is bit defective is to be called pramattasamyata i. e. non-vigilant observer of great vows.
(555) The wise man who is well equipped with all vows, whose negligence has disappeared entirely, who remains absorbed in meditation, but who has started neither subsiding his delusive karınas nor annihilating his delusive karmas is called apramattasaṁyata i. e. vigilant observer of great vows
(556) In this (eighth) stage of spiritual development the soul experiences unique but frequently changing mental states (of bliss) which have not been experienced ever before; hence the stage is called apūrvakaraṇa).
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