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## Gatha 376
## Jnanamarga/475
**Only the arising of Kevalgyan is the cause of its own arising and is imperishable. Paramovadigyan arises only in the restrained. Upon the arising of Paramovadigyan, the being never attains Mithyatva or Asangram.**
**Doubt:** How does a Paramovadigyani not attain Asangram upon being reborn as a Deva after death?
**Solution:** No, because Paramovadigyanis do not undergo Pratipat, so their rebirth as Devas is not possible.
**Sarva** refers to Kevalgyan. **Sarvavadhi** means the knowledge of all boundaries, which is the knowledge of all limitations. **Sarvavadhi** does not include **Paramovadi** and **Savidhi**, because **Paramovadi** and **Sarvavadhi** are not subject to loss. The **Avadhigyan** that arises and grows like the full moon in the bright fortnight, until it attains its highest potential and gives rise to Kevalgyan and is destroyed, is **Vardhaman Avadhigyan**. It is included in **Paramovadi** and **Sarvavadhi**. This proves that **Paramovadi** and **Sarvavadhi** are imperishable and do not attain Mithyatva or Asangram.
**Paramovadigyan** and **Sarvavadhigyan** are imperishable, indestructible, and remain until the arising of Kevalgyan.
**With respect to the fourfold category of substance, etc., the object of Avadhigyan is the substance, field, time, and state, which are perceived as a form of substance.**
**The best of the best, which is free from the duality of the world, is the friend.** ||376||
**Meaning of the Gatha:** All Avadhigyan, from the lowest to the highest, knows the substance, field, time, and state as a form of substance. There is no duality of the lowest and highest in Sarvavadhigyan. ||376||
**From the Mahaaskandha to the atom, all Pudgala substances, the countless Lokapramanas, fields, times, and states, and the beings who have attained the Pudgala state (form) due to the connection with Karma, are known directly by Avadhigyan.** The epithet "form" is used to negate the formless (amurta) substance.
**Doubt:** If only the form of substance is grasped by this (Avadhigyan), then...
1. "Only in the state of being restrained is the arising of Kevalgyan possible, and it is not subject to debate." [Dhavala Pu. 9 p. 41]
2. "If a Paramovadigyani were to die, he would attain Mithyatva or Asangram." [Dhavala Pu. 13 p. 323]
3. "All Kevalgyanis are restrained. The one who has attained the state of being restrained is the one who has attained the state of being restrained." [Dhavala Pu. 13 p. 323]
4. Dhavala Pu. 13 p. 263
5. P. Pu. 13 p. 3281
6. J.D. Pu. 1 p. 43.