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on the Path) for which reference must be made to other works, such as the 'Practical Path. But the twenty-second is left behind in the eighth stage, the eighth is overcome in the ninth, and the sixth, the tenth, the twelfth and the nineteenth are also destroy. ed in the same stage, consequent on the eradicat ion of the element of pride. Thus only fourteen parişahas are to be met with in the subsequent stages up to the twelfth, where the fifteenth, the twentieth and the twenty-first are parted from. The remaining eleven parisahas survive in an enfeebled, powerless, stingless condition in the thirteenth stage; for omniscience have ing arisen here the affections and longings and needs of the lower self are rendered of no effect as against its illuminative force. But the body still persists, and the parişuhas are similarly deemed to be existing still, though devoid of their evil effect. All these parişahas come to an end at the moment of nirvana, when the body is left behind for over, and the soul, now fully purified and perfected, rises up to the topmost part of the universe, as a pure Divinity, endowed with omniscience, immortality, uninterrupted unending joy, and all other worshipful qualities.
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