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Verse 4
Dispositions of the soul to get rid of the karmic matter already bound with it, either when it falls off by itself on fruition, or when it is annihilated through asceticism (tapas), constitute the subjective shedding of karmas (bhāva nirjară). The actual dissociation of the karmic matter from the soul is the objective shedding of karmas (dravya nirjara). Thus nirjară should be known of two kinds.
Jain, Vijay K. (2012), "Acarya Nemichandra's Dravyasamgraha", p. 129.
Acārya Kundakunda's Pańcāstikāya-Sāra: संवरजोगेहिं जुदो तवेहिं जो चिट्ठदे बहुविहेहिं । कम्माणं णिज्जरणं बहुगाणं कुणदि सो णियदं ॥ १४४ ॥
That mighty personality which after closing the springs of karmas, good and evil, and equipped with the faculty of pure thought, controls its life according to manifold forms of tapas, will undoubtedly be able to rid itself of karmas manifold.
Chakravarti Nayanar, A. (2009), "Acarya Kundakunda's Pancästikäya-Sara", p. 118.
On the destruction of inimical karmas, called the ghatiya karmas, it is possible for a person to attain unhindered, infinite and pure knowledge, i.e., omniscience. A single substance is endowed with infinite modifications and there are infinite classes of substances. To know one substance fully is to know the whole range of the object of knowledge and that is possible only in omniscience.
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