Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Fourteen Stages of Development (Jainism)

(From Wikipedia)

The fourteen stages of development according to Jainism:

According to the Jain tradition, through the following fourteen stages of development, the soul gradually frees itself, firstly from the worst, then from the less bad and finally from all kinds of karma, and manifests the innate qualities of knowledge, belief and conduct in a more and more perfect form.

The first four gunasthana are related to belief or rationality in perception. As and when the soul acquires rationality in perception it moves on to 4th gunasthana. Stages 5 to 14 relate to conduct. The purity in conduct determines the gunasthana from the 5th stage onwards. Those who have taken the anuvratas {minor vows} may reach up to the 5th Gunasthana. The 6th to 14th Gunasthanas can only be attained by those who have taken the Mahavratas (the major vows) of Jain asceticism.



The Fourteen Stages
मिथ्यदृष्टि गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of wrong belief.
सस्वदानंसंयाग्दृष्टि गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of one who has a slight taste of right belief.
मिश्रदृष्टि गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of mixed belief.
अविराट संयाग्दृष्टि गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of one who has true belief but has not self discipline.
देसाविराटा संयाग्दृष्टि गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of partial self-control.
प्रमातसंयत संयाग्दृष्टि गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of complete self-discipline, although sometimes wavering due to negligence.
अप्रमातसंयत गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of self-control without negligence.
निवृत्ति बद्र संपराय गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of one in whom the passions are still manifesting in an unevolved form.
अनिवृत्ति बद्र संपराय गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of one who practices the process called anivritti karana and in whom passions are still occurring.
सूक्षं संपराय गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of one in whom passions occur in a subtle form.
उपासमा कस्याव वित्राग चद्मस्ता गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of one who has suppressed every passion but still does not possess omniscience.
क्सिन कस्याव वित्राग चद्मस्ता गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of who has annihilated every passion but does not yet possess omniscience.
संयोगी केवलिन गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of omniscience with activity.
अयोगी केवलिन गुणस्थानः॥ The stage of omniscience without any activity.

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