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## Gatha 203-204
**Kayamaganga/276**
**Special Meaning:** Just as a man carrying a load on his shoulder takes it to the desired place, in the same way, a worldly being carries the burden of karma, such as knowledge-obscuring karma, in his body-shaped kavada, which is made of the body of merit, etc., and wanders through various births. That man, freed from the burden of the kavada, is free from the suffering caused by that burden and rests comfortably in a desired place. Similarly, a near-liberated soul, having attained the five attainments of destruction of karma, purification, knowledge, practice, and instrument, becomes endowed with right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct. He abandons the carrying of the burden of karma through his body-shaped kavada, and being free from the various kinds of suffering caused by the ripening of karma, he dwells happily in the desired place of the world. This is the intention of the Acharya for the benefit of the liberated souls.
**Kayamargna**
**Gatha 203:** Just as gold, when it reaches fire, leaves behind its impurities and blackness, in the same way, a soul, when it attains meditation, becomes free from the bondage of the body and becomes bodiless.
**Special Meaning:** Just as in the world, when impure gold is heated in a blazing fire and refined by the feeling of taste, etc., it leaves behind its external impurities and blackness, and its internal impurities, as a result of which pure gold, shining with sixteen qualities, is obtained, and all people praise it. Similarly, by the use of the fire of austerity, through the contemplation of Dharma-meditation and Shakla-meditation, especially the near-liberated soul, being freed from the bondage of the body of merit and the body of energy, and from the bondage of the connection of the body of karma, becomes a bodiless, non-physical, liberated, supreme being. He attains the attainment of infinite knowledge, etc., and resides in the world. He becomes worthy of praise, salutation, worship, and appreciation by all beings in the world. Those who have a body are worldly, and those who are without a body are bodiless and liberated.
**Shri Madhavchandra Vidyadeva** states the number of beings with earth bodies, etc., in Kayamargna through eleven gathas:
**Gatha 204:** By multiplying the number of worlds in the method of three and a half times, the number of energy-bodied beings is obtained. The number of earth-bodied beings is much greater than the number of energy-bodied beings.
**Notes:**
1. According to the commentary by Shrimadabhayachandra on the Siddhanta Chakravati.
2. In Shrautapurana, page 266, Gatha 144 is mentioned, but instead of "Jogaiga", it is "Joena". And in Pra. Pan. San., page 18, Gatha 17 is mentioned.