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ATMA-SIDDHI
We wish to have only what we have not got. In Perfection the soul has everything, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnibeatitude. It requires nothing then. The desire of Liberation also is left behind sometime before Liberation is gained. The desire is up to the 10th Spiritual stage. After that in the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th, there is no trace of this desire for Perfection also. And Liberation is at the end of the 14th stage. (For the 14 stages reference may be made to Jaina Books, specially Gommata Sara Jiva Kanda, and for a very brief account to Outlines of Jainism pp. 48-52).
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VI. There 1 Means of Liberation
Souls can be free. Souls have been free as those of Lords Adinath, Neminath, Parsvanath and Mahavira, and of many others. The inner vision, the spiritual experience, the enthusiasm of benefiting humanity without any selfish motive of any kind, have been common to them. Love and service have been the eyes of these glorious Pilgrims; Passionlessness, the preparation;and Self-realisation, their common goal. The words always differed, as also the parentage and countries of these Enlightened Souls; but the goal and the path were the same.
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