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sipirtual development stage named as nivṛtti badara gunasthana. Two steps begin from this stage- (1) Subduative step (upasama śreni) and (2) exhaustive step (kṣapaka śreņi). The mendicant who takes subduative step he stops reaching the eleventh stage of spiritual development and falls down from that stage. The mendicant who takes exhaustive step he does not touch eleventh stage and reaches twelfth from tenth stage in a jumping way and becomes unfallible. Really the mendicant taking exhaustive step raises up one after another development stage, but not touching eleventh reaches twelfth directly. Then exhausting all ghātī (soulbinding) karmas attains infinite knowledge and perception. Then crossing twelfth stage he stays himself in thirteenth stage of spiritual development and remains there till whole life but a little span of period. During this period he enters in fourteenth stage of spiritual development and within a few seconds becomes emancipated and reaching on the top of loka enjoys soul-bliss upto infinite time.
In the present maxim scripturist giving the word apuvvkaraṇa pointed out the relativeness of apurvakaraṇa with monk Gaja Sukumāla. Its inherent idea is this, that monk Gaja Sukumāla entering the eighth stage of spiritual development had taken the exhaustive step.
सूत्र ३१ :
तए णं से कण्हे वासुदेवे कल्लं पाउप्पभायाए जाव जलते पहाए जाव विभूसिए, हत्थिक्खंधवरगए सकोरंटमल्लदामेणं छत्तेणं धरिज्जमाणेणं सेयवरचामराहिं उद्धव्यमाणीहिं महया भड - चडगर - पहकरवंद - परिक्खित्ते बारव णयरिं मज्झं मज्झेणं जेणेव अरहा अरिट्ठणेमी तेणेव पहारेत्थ गमणाए ।
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तए णं से कण्हे वासुदेवे बारवईए णयरीए मज्झं मज्झेणं णिगच्छमाण एकं पुरिसं पासइ । जुष्णं जरा-जज्जरियं देहं जाव किलंतं महइमहालयाओ इट्टगरासिओ एगमेगं इट्टगं गहाय बहिया रत्थापहाओ अंतोहिं अणुष्पविसमाणं पासइ ।
तणं से कहे वासुदेवे तस्स पुरिसस्स अणुकंपणट्ठाए हत्थिक्खंधवरगए चेव एगं इट्टगं गिues, गिण्हित्ता बहिया रत्थापहाओ अंतोगिहं
अणुप्पवेसिए ।
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