Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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The upaśamakas are divided into long-lived and short-lived. The short-lived goes to the Ahamindras, if he has the first kind of body. Also any one who would have gone to mokşa, if his life had been 7 lavas longer, goes to the highest heavens. But if one's ladder is broken when there are still 7 lavas of life left, then he falls to the seventh guṇasthāna, and after 7 lavas ascends the kşapakasreņi. Long-lived ones go up to the eleventh guņasthāna, if their ladder is unbroken. Upaśamakas must fall from the eleventh, and may fall from any stage preceding, up to a total of four times. The 7 prakřtis must have been suppressed before this. Now he begins the suppression of the rest of mohaniyakarma. During the eighth and ninth, he suppresses all but sañjvalana greed.
After destroying the 7 prakrtis and 3 āyuşkarma, the jiva ascends the kşapakaśreņi, from which he can not fall. On this ladder he devotes himself to the destruction, instead of the suppression, of karma.
The duration of the eighth guṇasthāna is an antarmuhūrta, Only suklaleśyā occurs from now on. In the eighth the 'extraordinary' apūrvakaraṇakriyā is done (see n. 255). IX. Anivsttibādaraguņasthāna.
In the ninth, the upaśamaka continues the suppression of mohaniyakarma and suppresses all but sañjvalana greed. For the kșapakaśreņi, this guṇasthāna has 9 divisions, in which he destroys 36 kinds of karma, as shown in the table.
The 'extraordinary' anivịttikaraṇakriyā is done in the ninth (see n. 255). The duration of the ninth is an antarmuhūrta, and only suklaleśyā occurs.
X. Sūkşmasamparāyagunasthāna.
In this the upaśamaka reduces sañjvalana. The kşapaka destroys sañjvalanalobha, the only cāritramohaniyakarma which is left. Then he passes to the