Gunasthāna. Fourteen stages of Jain progress toward emancipation of the
jīva (cf. the Eightfold Path of Buddhism,
aṣṭangika-mārga): (i)
mithyātva, having wrong belief; (ii)
sāśadana, tending to right belief, but prone to backsliding; (iii)
miśra, having a mixture of right and wrong belief; (iv)
avirata saṃyaktva, having right belief but not acting upon it with a commitment through vows; (v)
deśa-vrata, taking some vows; (vi)
pramatta-vrata, taking all vows but impeded, e.g. by illness, from keeping them; (vii)
apramatta-vrata, unimpeded vow-keeping; (viii)
apūrva-karaṇa, new thought activity begins; (ix)
nirvṛtti-karaṇa, is extended; (x)
sūkṣama-sāmparyāya, only a residue of delusion remains; (xi)
upaśānta-moha, delusion has subsided; (xii)
kṣīna-moha, delusion is destroyed; (xiii)
sayoga-kevalī, the jīva is omniscient in its last body; (xiv)
ayoga-kevalī, the jīva passes through a brief stage of non-interactive omniscience, before its complete emancipation from
karma.
