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## Ninth Dasha
**With Hindi Commentary**
**- 3353**
The subject matter of this section is the establishment of liberation. It means that when knowledge and character become unified in a single state, the soul becomes free from the eight types of karma and escapes the bondage of birth and death. This state is called liberation.
Action is always connected to its cause, meaning that action cannot exist without a cause. Just as there is no existence of a cloth without threads and no existence of a pot without clay, similarly, there is no existence of birth and death when karma is destroyed. Because karma is the cause of birth and death. This destruction of karma is called liberation, moksha, or nirvana.
Those who are free from the eight karmas are liberated in the past, they exist in the 'mahavidehaadi' realms in the present, and they will be liberated in the future as well. Therefore, the sutra states, "Atichchhieti - in the past, Atishthe - in the past, Ananta-jantavo jati-marane vilanghaya shivam jagmurityartha. Sampratam sankhyata atiyanti - atikramantti bhavishyati kale atyeshyanti cha." The meaning of this has already been explained.
Here, a doubt arises: When the soul is liberated and attains the state of Siddha, is it different from other Siddhas or is it the same? The solution states that it is both different and the same. Jainism is called Syadvada. It considers the soul to be different from a certain perspective and the same from another perspective. For example, according to the 'Dravyastik' nay, the soul remains different in the state of Siddha, because even after liberation, the soul does not lose its essence but remains pure in its essence, free from karma, in liberation. But if we consider it according to the 'Pradesharthik' nay, the soul remains the same in the state of liberation, because there, the infinite Siddhas reside in their respective realms, united with each other. Just as the light of different lamps appears as one, but the lamps themselves are separate, similarly, the realms of the Siddhas remain separate, but there is such unity among them that they do not appear different, but rather the same. And just as there are various emotions in a single mind, so too should we understand the Siddhas.