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The Forty-Seventh Chapter
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Having eradicated the four karmas, he attained the four infinite qualities and became the abode of thirty-four atiśayas. || 352 ||
He became the holder of the sa-yoga-kevali guna-sthāna, fulfilling his own and others' purposes, and adorned the sky-like courtyard, bearing a supremely generous body. || 353 ||
At that time, the Indra of the Saudharma heaven arrived with the four types of gods, and he completed all the rituals of the knowledge-kalyaṇaka-related worship. || 354 ||
Possessing the atiśayas of the worship of the supremely generous body of merit and the creation of the samavasaraṇa, Śrī Vardhamāna Svāmī became known as the Parameṣṭhī and attained the state of the Paramātman. || 355 ||
Then, Indra pondered the reason for the divine sound of the Lord, and, knowing the reason through the third eye of knowledge, he became very satisfied. || 356 ||
At that very moment, he came to my village. I was there, a superior Brāhmaṇa named Indra-bhūti, of the Gautama gotra, very proud, born there by the remaining merit, with a body that shone brightly, having come from the vimāna called Āditya, and I was a knower of the Vedas and Vedāṅgas. || 357-358 ||
Seeing me, he brought me to the Lord by some means and urged me to ask whatever I wanted to ask about the nature of the jīva. || 359 ||
Hearing Indra's words, I asked the Lord, "O Bhagavan! Is there a thing called jīva, or not? Please tell me its nature." In response, the Lord, who is compassionate to the worthy, said, "There is a thing called jīva, and it is the measure of the body that is taken, its nature is described by the sat-saṅkhyā, etc., the sat-ādik, and the nirdeśa, etc., the kim-ādik. It is not born or destroyed in the form of dravya, but it undergoes transformation every moment in the form of paryaya. Consciousness is its characteristic, it is the doer, the enjoyer, and the knower of one part and all parts of things." || 360-362 ||
It is described in two ways, by the difference between the samsārī and the mukta. Its samsāra has been going on since time immemorial, and mokṣa is considered to be its end. || 363 ||
The samsāra of a jīva who has attained mokṣa does not exist, that is, it does not return to samsāra. The samsāra of some jīvas is eternal, that is, because of being abhavya or dūrāhavya, it remains in samsāra forever. In this samsāra, countless jīvas have attained mokṣa, and countless jīvas are still remaining. In the bondage of karma,
1. parāpta-iti kvacit.
2. prāpa m., l.
3. ko'sāvītyupa-l.
4. -dityabhāsuraṁ l.
5. saha-kṣitā k, kh, g, gh, m.