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TEXTS: METAPHYSICS XIII
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tinged by the interposition of the passions. Thence arises a double effect and a foufoli bondage. Black, indigo, grey, fiery, lotus, and white are the designations of the leśyās, sixfold according to rule. I'prooting, trunk, cutting bough or branch, plucking, eating fallen fruit-thus would be the action in accordance with these.
XIV. GUŅASTHĀNAS 6:3. जेहिं टु लकिव जंते उदयादिसु संभवेहि भावेहिं । जीवा ते गुणसमा णि द्दिट्ठा सव्वदरसीहिं ॥ ८ ॥
Gommata-sāra, Jirakānda, 8. Those states by which, arising in them at the maturity, etc., of karmas, the spiritual position of souls is recognized and determined, are by the all-seeing ones
designated under the name guņas. 51. मिको सासण मिस्सो अविरदसम्मो य देसविरदो य ।
विरदापमत्त इदरो अपुव्व अणियट्ट मुहमो य ॥ ९ ॥ उवसंतखीण मोहो सजोगकेवलि जिणो अजोगी य । च उदस जीवसमासा कमेण सिद्धा य णादवा ॥ १० ॥
Ibid. 9-10. There are fourteen stages of the soul (guna-sthānas): (1) False belief (mithyātra). [The thought-state (bhāva) of the soul dne to the manifestation of karmas that produce false knowledge or belief (or perception). From this the soul always goes to the fourth stage. (2) Backsliding (sāsāılana). When the soul from the fourth stage falls back into the first on account of false belief, it passes throngh the second stage, and the thought-states (bhāvas) in the passage are called sāsādana.) (3) Vised right and wrong belief (miśra).
down from the fourth to the first
