________________ 208 TATTVARTHA SUTRA Aupashamik, Kshayik, Kshayopashamik, Audayik and Parinamik are the five modes and that different states arise during those modes. This sutra states that liberation is manifested by absence of all the states resulting from those modes, except the states of infinite enlightenment, infinite knowledge, infinite perception and liberation. In other words, only those four states continue to exist in the state of liberation. The sutra thus signifies that with the destruction of Karma, there is also the termination of the states associated with the bondage of Karma. It would be remembered that the eligibility for liberation was mentioned as a Parinamik mode in chapter 2. Here the sutra specifies the absence of that mode in the state of liberation. That may appear intriguing at the first sight. The existence of that mode, however, indicates that a soul is eligible for liberation, but has not still attained it. Once a soul attains the liberation, it does not need the eligibility. As such liberation coincides with the absence of that mode also. तदनन्तरमूर्ध्वं गच्छत्या लोकान्तात् // 10-5 // पूर्वप्रयोगादसंगत्वाद्बन्धछेदात्तथागतिपरिणामाच्चतद्गतिः // 10-6 // 10.5: Tadanantaramoordhwam Gachchhatya lokantat 10.6: Poorvaprayogadasangatvadbandhchchhedattathagatiparinamachchatadgatih (Thereafter the soul rises above till the top of the universe. The rising occurs by virtue of Poorvaprayog, Asangatva, Bandhchhed and Tathagatiparinam.) The question would be, 'What happens at the time of liberation?' The sutra 5 states that the liberated soul rises Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
