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Shreni.rahita, rahita means without. Those who are without any system of working out their moha (delusion).
Sbreni-vanta, those who have a method by which they systematically work out their infatuating or intoxicating or delusion, producing elements.
Avirati, those who have not yet obtained control over their minds and senses.
Virati, those who have obtained a partial control over their mind and senses.
Mithyâtvi, those who are in the state of mithyâtva.
Samyaktvi, those who are in the state of samyaktva.
Granthi-abliedi, those wlio have not yet cut that "knot spoken of previously, (thuis knot is cut while in the state of mithyâtva.)
Granthi-bhedi, those who have cul it. Abhavya, those who will not reach liberation. Bhavya, those who will reach it.
This table is read upwards, thus : there are abhavya living beings and bhavya living beings, but they are both granthi-abhedi; there are granthiabhedi living beings and granthi-bhedi living beings, but they are both mithyâtvi; there are mithyâtvi living beings and samyaktvi living beings, but they are both avirati, and so on up to the top...... There are sansâri living beings and siddha living beings, but they are both living beings.
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