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3. Kshaayika Samyaktva: When the karmas that obstruct samyaktva are annihilated completely, the resultant samyaktva is permanent. This is the highest degree of samyaktva. This kind of samyaktva, once attained, is never lost. Because all the karmas that could possibly impede samyaktva have been permanently destroyed.
It is said that the three classes of darshana-mohaniiya karmas (perception-deluding karmas} and the four most intense anantaanubandhii (causing eternal karmic bondage) classes of chaaritra-mohaniiya karmas (conduct-deluding karmas) prevent us from attaining samyaktva. The three classes of darshana-mohaniiya karmas (perception-deluding karmas) are as under:
1. Samyaktva Mohaniiya - karmas that dilute and degrade samyaktva but do not destroy it.
2. Mishra Mohaniiya - karmas that partly delude samyaktva
3. Mithyaatva Mohaniiya - karmas that bind false beliefs to the soul
The four most intense anantaanubandhii (causing eternal bondage) classes of chaaritra-mohaniiya karmas (conduct-deluding karmas) are:
1. Anantaanubandhii Krodha - intense anger, deep enough to cause eternal karmic bondage 2. Anantaanubandhii Maana - intense arrogance, deep enough to cause eternal karmic bondage 3. Anantaanubandhii Maayaa -intense artifice, deep enough to cause eternal karmic bondage 4. Anantaanubandhii Lobha -intense avarice, deep enough to cause eternal karmic bondage
Of these seven classes of karmas, with the exception of the samyaktva mohaniiya karmas, the presence of the other six classes is enough to deter the emergence of samyaktva in the seeker. Only the samyaktva mohaniiya karmas are such that despite their presence, the seeker may attain samyaktva. This is because even though this class of karmas obstructs samyaktva, it degrades it rather than destroys it. It compromises the purity of samyaktva but does not jeopardise its existence in the soul. On the other hand, the other six classes ensure that the soul does not attain samyaktva. The seeker who has samyaktva mohaniiya karmas can still have deep faith in the reals as adumbrated by the Jinaas.
Now let us study the categories of samyaktva based on degree of permanence:
1. Upashama Samyaktva (enlightened perception attained through suppression of deluding karmas) This type of samyaktva is fleeting and comes into being when the three classes of perception-deluding (darshana mohniiya) and the eternal bondage causing degree of four passions (anantaanubandhii kashaaya) are suppressed. These seven factors are also known as darshanamoha saptaka {the seven factors that cause delusion of perception}.
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