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in Right and Wrong at one and the same time. This is reached on falling down from the 4th stage. From the 3rd, the soul may come down straight to the 1st or rise to the 4th stage. But the operation of the error-feeding passions without operation of Wrong-belief brings about the downfall of the soul from the 4th to the 2nd stage. In the 3rd stage, only 22 causes delusion are operative, nameiy, 21, i.e., all except the 4 error-feeding passions of Right-conduct-deluding karma, and only 1, i.e; mixed-right and wrong-belief
of the right-belief-deluding karma. (4) Avirata-Samyaktva, Vowless Right-Belief.
A soul which enters the 4th stage is said to have reached the thresh-hold of Liberation. At this stage the soul has got only Right-Belief. The soul here has belief in the Path of Liberation, but cannot observe the rules of conduct for attaining Liberation. Here only 21 causes of delusion are operative. There is no right-belief-deluding karma except of the 3rd kind i.e. when the right-belief is clouded by wrong-belief.
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