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Guṇasthāna

The fourteen Jain stages of spiritual development, from delusion to final liberation.

Also: Gunasthana, stages of purity

Jainism, Sikhism and other paths

The guṇasthānas map the soul’s ascent in fourteen stages, from the wrong view of the first, through the awakening of right faith in the fourth, the vows of the fifth and sixth, and the suppression and destruction of passion, to omniscience in the thirteenth and the motionless state before death in the fourteenth.