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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DISSOCIATION OF KARMAS IN DIFFERENT STAGES 275
of activity, as there is disappearance of respiration and movement and vibration of the spatial units of the soul, arising from activities of the body, mind and speech-organ. In this stage of meditation there is complete annihilation of bondage and influx. And in the omniscient without activity endowed with the capacity of annihilating all karmas, there arise perfect conduct, knowledge and faith, which are capable of destroying all kinds of cobwebs of worldly suffering, and which constitute the immediate cause of complete emancipation or final liberation. Then the saint in the fourteenth stage burns all the remaining four karmas with the powerful fire of concentration, becomes purified like pure gold freed from dirt and other alloys and attains eternal bliss. Thus the two kinds of austerities constitute the cause of stoppage, as these are the means of stopping the influx of new karmas. These also constitute the cause of dissociation, as these are the means of destroying the old karmas.
Is dissociation of karmas alike (of the same efficacy) in all cases of right believers or is it different from self to self? सम्यग्दृष्टिश्रावक विरतानन्त वियोजकदर्शनमोहक्षपको पशमको पशान्तमोहक्षपकक्षीणमोहजिनाः क्रमशोऽसंख्येयगुणनिर्जराः
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Samyagdṛṣṭiśravakaviratānantaviyojakadarśanamohakṣapakopasamakopaśāntamohakṣapakakṣiņamoñajināḥ kramaśo (a)samkhyeyagunanirjarāḥ
(45) 45. The dissociation of karmas increases innumerable-fold from stage to stage in the ten stages of the right believer, the householder with partial vows, tb ascetic with great vows, the separator of the passions leading to infinite births, the destroyer of faith-deluding karmas, the suppressor of conduct-deluding karmas, the saint with quiescent passions, the destroyer of delusion, the saint with destroyed delusion and the spiritual victor (Jina).
The efficacy of dissociation of karmas increases innumerable times respectively in the ten stages of the right believer etc. It is as follows. Several kinds of karmas dissociate in the case of the self with capacity for attaining emancipation, who attains birth with the five senses and the mind and complete