Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

SR No.: 001197
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S A Jain
Publisher: Jwalamalini Trust Chennai
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 334
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Tattvartha Sutra, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 20 MB

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STAGES OF DESTRUCTION OF KARMAS Again the saint intends to root out the deluding karmas. He embraces infinitefold pure activity and obstructs the bondage of karmas which assist knowledge-covering karmas. He lessens the duration and destroys these karmas. He is actuated by the exertion of scriptural knowledge. He is free from object, word and activity shifting. His mind does not waver. He is passionless and is stainless like the pure cryocal. He meditates and never falls back. Hence it is called the unique, (single) scriptural concentration. Thus the four obscuringkarmas are burnt by the self with the fire of the unique, scriptural, pure concentration, and omniscience sparkles like a multitude of rays. The pure self shines like the sun coming out of the clouds. And the self-whether a Tirthamkara or other Omniscient-is worthy to be venerated and worshipped by the lords of the world. And he moves from place to place preaching the gospel to the world up to a maximum period of a little less than pūrvakoti years. When the duration of his life, feeling, body-making and status-determining karmas is within one muhūrta, then he gives up entirely the activities of the mind and the speech-organ.
Giving up gross bodily activity, and depending on slight bodily activity, he ascends (embraces) the third pure concentration of subtle activity. But when the duration of the feeling, body-making and status-determining karmas is more than that of the life-karma (which is less than a muhūrta), the self with activity attains remarkable exertion and embraces meditation. He is endowed with the wonderful capacity by which stupendous stoppage is effected. He performs expansion of the soul capable of ripening the karmas very quickly and destroying or reducing them. Thus the self practises comprehensive pervasion in the form of a stick, a door, an oblong, filling up the universe in four instants and contracting to his former size immediately in another four instants. He thus makes the duration of all the four karmas equal, and through subtle bodily activity embraces the meditation of slight activity. And after that he commences the meditation of completo destruction of activity. This is called the complete destruction