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or purging is of the two kinds saká ma and akama. When a jiva intentionally conducts himself in such way as would purge his soul out of all impurities, it is called sakam nirjard ; but when karma bargands are left to themselves for their own falling off from the constitution of the soul in their natural course, it is called akama nirjara. Nirjarå bhavand implies, therefore, the thinking of the ways and means of voluntarily getting rid of the karma-matter infesting the soul with the express intention
of attaining to beatitude. (10) Lokaswabhava bhåvand—means the
thinking on the symbolic conception of the universe as given in the Jain scriptures. The sun, the moon, the earth, the planets and stars ; the physical sky, the hell, the heaven and the like constitute one composite universe according to the Jain system of thought. Its form and configuration is
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