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## Chapter 8: The Twelvefold Contemplation
**8.1** The **asrava** (inflow) of one who has restrained it and is endowed with **tapa** (austerity) becomes **nirjara** (exhaustion). This **nirjara** is of two types: **ekadesha** (partial) and **sarvadesha** (universal).
**744** **Meaning:** The **nirjara** of the karmas of a monk who has restrained **asrava** and is endowed with **tapa** is of two types: **ekadesha** and **sarvadesha**.
**745** **Meaning:** In this world, the **nirjara** of the karmas of all beings who are wandering in the four **gatis** (paths of existence) and have attained **kshayopashama** (cessation of karmic inflow) is **ekadesha**. And the **nirjara** that occurs through **tapa** is **sarvadesha**.
**746** **Meaning:** Just as a gold nugget, when heated in a furnace, becomes pure by being freed from impurities, so too, a being, when heated by the fire of **tapa**, becomes pure by being freed from karmas.
**747** **Meaning:** Just as a fire burns wood, straw, and other fuel, so too, **tapa** burns away the **bhavyam** (future existence) of one who is endowed with **jnana** (knowledge), **virya** (effort), **sila** (conduct), **samadhi** (concentration), and **samyama** (self-control).