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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
Punya(righteousness), Ashrava (Inflow), Bandh (Bondage), Samwara (Stoppage of influx) and Nirjara (shedding of accumulated Karmas) and Moksha(Final realease-freedom)
Out of these first two produce reaction in form of Karmas. The third factor connotes the inflow of these Karmas and the fourth factor connotes the bondage. Up to this stage the soul gets bound and hence if it wants to get freedom,fith and sixth factors work. Fifth is "which means that the soul so works that it stops acquiring any fresh flow of Karmas. After this stoppage is complete, the question remains about the total destruction of karmas, which are already accumulated, The process by which this is adhieved is called “Nirjara”. When the accumaulated Karmas are totally destroyed and no fresh inflow of karmas is allowed by the process of "Samwar", the soul gets full freedom called "Moksha".
It is at this stage that the soul gets omniscience the stage which in terms of
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