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learning-prajñā, and despair or uneasiness arising from ignorance - ajñāna, are the fourteen afflictions (parīşaha). The mention of 'fourteen' implies that the other afflictions do not occur in these stages. An objection is raised. As there is no deluding karma in the twelfth stage, the eight afflictions originating from it are absent, and hence the rule limiting the afflictions to fourteen in their case is appropriate. But there is the rise of the deluding karma in the tenth stage. Hence the number fourteen is not appropriate to the saint of the tenth stage. The objection is not valid as in that stage there is mere presence of the deluding karma. There is merely the rise of the gleaming (samjualana) passion (kaşāya) of greed (lobha), and that too is very minute. So virtually the tenth stage is similar to the twelfth stage and the limit fourteen is applicable to it too. It is further argued that the afflictions such as hunger do not arise, as the rise of deluding karma is either absent or very slight. Hence it is not fit to speak of the conquest of such afflictions. But it is not so. What is the reason? The potentiality alone is referred to here, similar to the capacity of the highest kind of deva (Sarvārthasiddhi deva) to reach the seventh infernal region. (But they never go there, as there is no inclination, curiosity or need for them to do so.) If these afflictions occur to the embodied saint, how many afflictions arise in case of the Omniscient Jina, who still experiences the effects of four aghāti karmas?
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[जिने] तेरहवें गुणस्थान में जिनेन्द्रदेव के [ एकादश ] ऊपर बताये गये चौदह में से अलाभ, प्रज्ञा और अज्ञान, इन तीन को छोड़कर बाकी के ग्यारह परीषह (केवल उपचार से) सम्भव हैं।
Eleven afflictions (parīşaha) figuratively occur to the Omniscient Jina. In reality, he is free from all afflictions.
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