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laziness or frivolousness or carelessness - for such a Sãdhu, his inner personality has become very pure like a crystal, because of which all his activities of mind, speech and body are becoming purer and purer, whose conduct and Leśyās (see Appendix II, Story No.1) are also continuously being refined; such a Sādhu, being intensely desirous of total liberation, due to a certain amount of destruction of the four Ghāti Karmas (see verse 265), reaches a state known as Apūrvakaraņa (the 8th Guņasthāna) - meaning, state that has never been reached beforej, and at the same time many miraculous qualities and powers are also born in him.
255. Such a Sādhu, who has destroyed the deep-rooted prides of taste, wealth and pomp, and of joy and happiness, who is soakd in the happiness born out of peace and tranquillity; such a Sādhu in no way gets attached to these miraculous qualities and powers and does not at all use them without a very important and necessary reason.
256. For the worldly person the wealth and glory of the kings of the heavens is astounding. If this wealth and glory were to be multiplied a hundred thousand into ten million times, even then it would not be equivalent to a thousandth part of the miraculous qualities and powers that are born to a Sādhu (Anagāra), (who has reached Apūrvakaraṇa).
257 & 258. The Sādhu who remains dispassionate or indifferent towards the miraculous qualities and powers, who has vanquished the enemies of desires and aversions, that are the obstacles on this last leg of Final Emancipation reaches the Yathākhyāta Cāritara, which is well nigh impossible to reach even after a myriad of births and which is (almost) similar to the conduct of a Tīrthankara.
Then he does the first two kinds of sukladhyāna (known as
