The Truth

Author(s): O P Jain
Publisher: Veer Nirvan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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THE TRUTH
to liberation. Almost all living beings, except few, come under this category. They suffer from uncontrollable passions. and are under the influence of strong Mohaniya Karma Prakritis. Even when Right knowledge and Right Conduct. are taught to them, they do not believe in them, but on. the contrary hold false beliefs. True doctrines appear to them. as distasteful as sweet syrup to a man suffering from fever,
On making efforts, these souls acquire right faith and are elevated to the 4th stage of Avirata-Samyaktva directly. The 2nd and 3rd stages merely denote the fall from 4th to.
1st stage again. 2. Sasadana : It is a stage when the right faith is shaken by
virtue of uncontrollable passions. It is a transitory stage and shows the thought activity during fall from right faith.
to Mithyatva. 3. Mishra : It indicates a belief in right and wrong knowledge
at one and the same time. This state also arises from the influence of passions and operation of samyag mithyatva. mohaniya karmas. It is also a transitory stage during fall
from 4th to 1st stage. 4. Avirata-Samyaktva : It is right belief without right conduct.
Belief is produced by subsidence of passions of uncontro-- llable intensity and the subsidence of Darshana Mohaniya karma prakritis. Such a soul is unable to follow right conduct because the charitra mohaniya karmas are still strong. In this stage, the Darshana Mohaniya karmas may either be subsided or destroyed or partly destroyed and. partly subsided. In case of subsidence, strong passions may arouse them again and the soul falls to the first stage. The soul is able to progress further as long as right faith is. sustained. Further stages are governed by the extent to
which right conduct is followed. 5. Deshvrata : Here, the soul follows the partial conduct
e. g., the eleven pratimas of the householder. Here, the right faith is sustained and one is able to control the over
whelming intensity of passions 6. Pramattavirata : Here the soul follows the strict conduct,
but in an imperfect manner. Worldly objects having been