Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

Page 452

431 matured, and attains kṣāyopaśamika. He may fall from this or rise.
B) According to the KG, the jiva does the three karañas, and must attain aupaśamika. There is no alternative as in the siddhānta. Then he makes the three divisions of matter, and rises or falls accordingly. If pure matter rises, he attains kṣāyopaśamika; if mixed rises, he falls to third guṇasthāna; if impure rises, he falls to second and down to first.
In the fourth guṇasthāna begin the two ladders, upaśamaśreņi and kşapakaśreņi, for darśanamohaniyakarma. (This has frequently caused confusion, as the 'two śreņis' usually refer to the suppression and destruction of caritramohaniyakarma, in which case they begin in the eighth guṇasthāna.) At this stage four kinds of samyaktva are possible: aupaśamika, kṣāyopaśamika, vedika, and ksāyika. The upaśamakas (people on the upaśamaśreņi) may suppress the 7 prakstis (4 anantānubandhikaṣāyas and 3 darśanamohaniyas); or destroy them, if kşāyikasamyaktva is present. The kaşāyas really belong to câritramohaniya, but they are always linked with the 3 darśanamohaniya. The kşapakas destroy 3 āyuşkarma and may destroy the 7 prakstis. In this guṇasthāna the 5 lakṣaṇas of samyaktva appear (see n. 121). It can be reached by sañjñins, both paryāpta and aparyāpta. But though samyaktva may exist in aparyāptas, it originates only in paryāptas. The duration of the fourth guṇasthāna is an antarmuhurta as minimum, and 33 sāgaropamas (the maximum life of gods and nārakas) plus the life of a human being as maximum. All 6 leśyās are present.
II. Sāsvādanasamyagdņştiguñasthāna.
This is reached only by those falling from the fourth guṇasthāna, when mithyātvadarśanamohaniyakarma rises. It lasts only I samaya as minimum and 6 āvalis as maximum. It is so-called because during this brief time there is just a trace of samyaktva. In the second guņasthāna are