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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ATTAINMENT OF FINAL LIBERATION
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case denoting cause. Therefore liberation is the total destruction of all karmas at the same time, after levelling down the duration of all the remaining three karmas, so as to be equal to that of the age-karma. The disappearance of karmas is of two kinds, namely that effected by one's effort and that accomplished without one's effort. In the case of the self with the last body (i. e. one who is sure to attain emancipation in that birth), the life-karmas leading to hell, heaven and the animal world are non-existent. This non-existence is not the result of any effort, for these are already absent. The disáppearance brought about by effort is described presently. In someone of the four stages, commencing from that of the right believer with no self-control or restraint, seven subtypes of karmas are destroyed. Sixteen subtypes of karmas are simultaneously destroyed in the ninth stage of spiritual development. The sixteen subtypes are deep slumber, intensive sleep, somnambulism, the infernal state of existence, the animal state of existence, birth as beings with one, two, three or four senses, migratory form tending to infernal existence, migratory form tending to animal existence, body emitting a warm splendour, body emitting a cold lustre, body of a one-sensed being, subtle body and common body.
After that in that stage itself, eight subtypes of passions are destroyed. Again, therein, the neuter sex and the female sex are destroyed respectively. At one stroke six quasi-passions are also destroyed therein. Then the male sex-inclination and very slight (gleaming) anger, pride and deceitfulness are destroyed completely one by one in the same stage. Gleaming greed disappears at the end of the tenth stage. Slumber and deep sleep are destroyed in the last but one instant of the twelfth stage. The five subtypes of knowledge-covering, the four subtypes of perception-covering and the five subtypes of obstructive karmas are also destroyed in the last instant of this stage. And seventy-two subtypes of non-obscuring karmas are destroyed in the last but one instant of the omniscient without vibration (the fourteenth stage). These are one of the two feeling karmas, the celestial state of existence, the five bodies