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difference between them. Both of them are equal in that state ; both of them are emancipated. The Omniscient Beings who have obtained the disembodied salvation are called the 'Siddhas' by the Jainas.
"The Siddha has no body which is constituted of the eight modes of Karma. He sees and knows the Löka (the universe) and the Aloka (the Infinite void space beyond). He is really completely disembodied; but (for practical purposes) He is supposed to have a body (slightly less than His last corporeal frame) He stays at the summit of the Lökākāša." 57, Davoa-Sangaha.
The Siddha never returns to the Samsāra, the world of transmigrations. He is not benedited by any one. He does not do anything; He is neither a cause nor an effect. The Infinities of Perception, Knowledge, Power and Happiness inhere in Him. Far, very far down-is revolving the Round of Samsira. The Siddha lives in and through His essence in the peaceful' Siddha-sila,' the abode of the Siddhas, at the very peak of this universe, The beginningless pains of the world have gone away from Him for eternity to come! Lower, lower still down from the Siddha is the Lökākaša, the universe, the prison-house of
