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stage of savsadana-Samyagdrşti. The souls falling down to this stage necessarily fall back to the first stage. Samyagmithyadrsti (right-cum-wrong attitude) is the third stage of development. If after the end of the period of the dawn of the first enlightenment there is the rise of the semi-pure heap of the vision-deluding karman, the soul sinks down to this stage for an Antarmuhurta and afterwards either falls back to the first stage or rises up to a higher state of right vision. Avirata Samyagdṛṣṭi i. e. right vision without abstinence is called the fourth stage of spiritual development. The right vision at this stage may be the vision due to the absolute subsidence of the vision-deluding Karman (Aupaśamika). For spiritual development, the soul must develop the strength of all these three-vision, knowledge and self-control. It has the requisite vision, knowledge and wisdom. It has the right will but the energy for self-control is wanting. The soul can rise to the next stages only if it can fulfil this want.
Deśaviratasamyagdṛṣṭi is the fifth stage of right vision with capacity for partial abstinence. There is only a partial expression of the energy for self-control. The soul overcomes this weakness in the next stage, but even there the energy of the soul is not fully expressed. This is the stage of self-control with spiritual inertia (Pramatta Samyatta). The spiritual inertia is overcome in the next, the seventh stage of self-control with freedom from spiritual inertia (Apramatta Samyata).
The eighth stage is called Apurvakaraņa. At this stage the soul attains special purification and is capable of reducing the duration and intensity of the previously bound karmas and binds new Karmas of reduced duration and intensity. This stage is so called because the soul performs these processes with a vigour and rapidity unprecedented (Apurva) in its history. The ninth stage of development is Anivṛttibādarasamparaya. There is still the possibility of the attack of even the gross passions (badara-samparāya) and hence the name of the stage. The tenth stage is called sūkṣmasamparāya because in it only the subtle (sukṣma) greed of the fourth type can disturb the soul
