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Subject: [K-list] spiritual ladder___know where you stand.
From: wizkid
On 2003/06/22 12:23, wizkid posted thus to the K-list:
many people find difficult in reading words,some of the words are
transliterated and their meanings are written,you can check your spiritual
stage by checking your thought activity.it is the human psychology that
changes with every stage and you have to learn to write without any bias at
what stage you arestanding in this spiritual ladder.
THE FOURTEEN SPIRITUAL STAGES
it will be seen that all these 14 Spiritual Stages are due
to wrong belief, vowlessness, carelessness, passions and
vibratory activity. Carelessness (Pramada) in intensity or
mildness lasts from the 1st to the 6th stage of imperfect vow.
Therefore, the first six stages are referred to by the word
"Pramatta". All the other eight stages are meditation and free
from carelessness in pursuing the Path of Self-realization, and
are described as "Apramatta". The stages are indices of degrees
of progressing thought activities. They are mere steps of
ladder to reach the abode of Liberation. When the top is
reached, the ladder is left behind. Thus the soul in its
essence is devoid of any distinction of stages.
there are 14 Spiritual Stages
(Gunasthanas) of thought activities, which a soul, desirous of
being liberated and of attaining perfection has to pass through.
The 14 Spiritual Stages which trace the progress of the soul
from delusion to a condition of perfection are useful as a
practical preliminary. In its highest essence the soul neither
needs nor is capable of any divisions or stages; it is always
itself infinite. The 14 Spiritual Stages are:
(1) Mithyatva, Wrong Belief, Delusion.
The thought activity of the soul due to the operation of the
Right Belief Deluding Karmas. In this, the soul does not
believe in the right path to liberation. All 28 sub-classes
of Mohaniya i.e. Deluding karma may be present in this first
and lowest stage. From here the soul always goes to the 4th
Gunasthana.
(2) Sasadana, Downfall.
The second and third stages are the intervening progressive
stages of thought activities between wrong belief and right
belief of the 4th stage. In the 2nd stage the three kinds of
right belief deluding karmas are existent, but in an
inoperative condition. The remaining 25 are operative. The
duration of this stage is the shortest, viz. At the most 6
Avails, or winks or twinklings of an eye. This is a stage,
which is not touched by the soul in its progress. It is only
one of the possible 3 stages, which the soul occupies if it
suffers a downfall from the 4th stage. These 3 downward
stages are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. When there is operation in
the 4th stage of one of the four Anantanubandhi Kashayas,
error feeding passions, the soul falls down to the 1st stage
through the 2nd and the thought activity in the passage
through, is called Sasadana.
(3) Mishra mixed right and wrong belief.
Operation of Samyak mithyatva mohaniya karmas or Mishra
Mohaniya. Belief in right and wrong at one and the same time.
This is reached on falling down from the 4th stage. From the
3rd, the soul may come down straight to the 1st or rise to the
4th stage. But the operation of the error feeding passions
without operation of wrong belief brings about the downfall of
the soul from the 4th to the 2nd stage. In the 3rd stage,
only 22 causes delusion are operative, namely, 21, i.e., all
except the 4 error feeding passions of right conduct deluding
karma, and only 1, i.e. Mixed right and wrong belief of the
right belief deluding karma.
(4) Avirata Samyaktva, Vowless Right-Belief.
A soul which enters the 4th stage is said to have reached the
threshold of Liberation. At this stage the soul has got only
right belief. The soul here has belief in the Path of
Liberation, but cannot observe the rules of conduct for
attaining Liberation. Here only 21 causes of delusion are
operative. There is no right belief deluding karma except of
the 3rd kind i.e. when the right belief is clouded by wrong
belief.
(5) Desha Virata, partial vows, i.e. Taking the partial vows.
All the 11 Pratimas or stages of a layman's life come in
this stage. As soon as the soul begins to follow the
practical vows of a layman, it is said to enter the 5th
stage. Here only 17 causes of delusion are operative. The
four partial vow preventing passions become quiescent here.
(6) Pramata Virata, imperfect vows.
After renunciation of all worldly objects, still occasionally
to turn the mind to the service or needs of the body. This is
Pramattabhava, careless slackness in concentration.
Henceforth, the stages are all in the life of a muni, saint.
Here only 13 causes of delusion operate. The 4 total vow
preventing passions become quiescent. The 6th stage is also a
retrogressive one. It is reached by a soul which is going
down from the 7th stage. But such a downfallen soul may
regain the 7th stage from the 6th. Indeed this can go on for
a long, long time.
(7) Apramata Virata, Perfect vows.
Renouncing the careless slackness of the 6th Gunasthana, and
being absorbed in spiritual contemplation (righteous
contemplation of the highest type). From here there are 2
Shrenis, or ways of ascent,
(1) Upashama Shreni in which the right conduct deluding
karma subsides,
(2) Kshapaka Shreni in which it is being destroyed. This
last is the necessary way to Moksha, liberation.
(8) Apurva Karana, New thought activity.
Karana or thought activity which the saint's soul had never yet
acquired. This is the beginning of the first Shukladhyana,
pure concentration on the pure Atma or Self. In the 7th and
8th stages 13 causes of delusion operate but their operation
is mild.
(9) Anivritta Karana, Advanced thought activity,
Special thought activity of a still greater purity. A stage
of Pratham Shukladhyan. Here 7 causes of delusion operate, 6
slight passions no-kashyas subside or are destroyed.
(10) Suksma Samparaya, Slightest delusion.
All passions are destroyed or have subsided, except very
slight nominal greed. This is also, first Shukladhyana.
(11) Upashanta moha or Upashanta kashaya subsided delusion.
A thought activity which is produced by the subsidence of the
entire right conducts deluding karmas. This is also first
Shukladhyana. A saint must fall down from here, but if strong
enough, he can resume his ascent from the Kshapaka mode of
ascent in the 8th stage. Here all 28 causes of delusion
subside. Here the soul can stay at the most for one antar
muhurt. After falling down to any of the lower stages up to
7th, the soul can go up the destructive ladder to the 8th and
higher stages, skipping the 11th or the highest point of the
subsidential ladder on its way from the 10th to the 12th
stage, the highest point of the destructive ladder, where
delusion does not subside but is entirely destroyed.
(12) Kshina moha, delusion less.
The entire right conduct deluding karmas are destroyed, in
this stage, and the thought activity produced belongs to the
2nd Shukladhyana. The saint attaining this does so directly
from the 10th stage without passing through the 11th stage.
(13) Sayoga Kevali, Vibrating Perfect Soul.
Before commencing this, the soul must have destroyed the three
remaining destructive karmas knowledge obscuring, conation
obscuring, and obstructive karmas. The soul is subject to
mundane vibratory activity due to body making karma. A saint
after destroying all the four Ghati karmas by dint of
meditation and self-realization enters the 13th stage of
Vibratory Omniscient (Sayoga-Jina), when he is known as Arhat
or the Worshipful Lord. The Soul becomes Arhat or Perfect
Soul in human body with vibrations in it. Preaching and
peregrinations belong to this stage. The Worshipful Lord
proclaims Truth to the world.
(14) Ayoga Kevali, Vibration less Perfect soul.
When the same soul or the Worshipful Lord is about to be
entirely freed from karmas and his vibratory activity has
ceased, the soul is said to have entered the 14th stage of
Non-vibrating Omniscient Lord (Ayoga Jina). During the very
short period of this stage the soul destroys the remaining
four Aghati karmas i.e. Vedniya, Nama, Gotra and Ayu karmas.
Then the soul leaving the body goes to Siddhalaya at the top
of the universe, is finally free from all the karmas and has
accomplished all that was to be accomplished, liberation
Moksha. Such a soul is known as a Perfect Soul (Siddha). The
soul is a pure soul substance full of the infinite attributes
of omniscience, omnipotence, etc. In one word the soul is
itself God.
While a saint remains in the 6th and the 7th stages and improves
his qualifications, so that he has the capacity of controlling
the whole order of saints and supervises their general conduct,
he is said to be head of the order of saints or an Acharya.
If it is without passion, i.e. purely vibratory in the llth, l2th
and 13th spiritual stages and does not lead to bondage it is called
Iryapatha or transient or fleeting inflow.
Hindi Words:
12 Muhurtas : = 12 x 48 minutes
= 12 x 48/60 = 48/5 = 9hours, 36 minutes.
Shukladhyana:a type of smadhi in jainism.
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