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THE PATH OF SELF-CONQUEST
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Static omniscience state
Dynamic omniscience state Completely eliminated greed
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Partially eliminated greed
Suppressed subtle greed
Advanced spiritual activity
Unprecedented spiritual progress
Carelessness free
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Full restraint
Partial restraint
True insight
Mixed faith and doubt
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Vanishing faith
Incorrect view of reality
Animal/vegetable kingdom
Purification stage
Fig. 7.2 Purification axis with fourteen stages. further release of energy and knowledge elements which allows the soul to search for its true nature. Another important point to note is that the effect of the karmic matter is mostly first suppressed rather than altogether eliminated. Furthermore, each stage severely limits karmic fusion and diminishes old karmic matter, and at most of the stages the degrees of Anger, Pride, Deceit and Greed are reduced gradually, with anger being the first to be reduced and so on. The five degrees of the Four Passions have already been described in Chapter 5. However, the overall aim is to eradicate all the five important agents of karmic fusion given in Axiom 4A.
