$JES 901 Jainism and Spiritual Awakening E9

Author(s): JAINA Education Committee
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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06-NINE TATTVAS AND KARMA PHILOSOPHY
However, at the time of his/her death, one destroys the remaining four Aghäti karmas, and achieves Nirvana, Liberation, or Moksha.
A liberated soul totally realizes its true attributes of infinite knowledge, infinite perception, infinite power or unlimited energy, and total bliss. The soul does not possess any physical body and is untouched by all kinds of miseries of the world forever. Now, the soul exists in a state of pure consciousness. It reaches the top of Lokäkäsh and remains there forever in its blissful existence. It never returns to the cycles of birth, life, miseries, and death. This state of the soul is the liberated or perfect state, and is called "Nirvana."
"To kill or hurt any living being amounts to killing or hurting one self.
Compassion to others is compassion to one's own self.
Therefore, one should avoid violence that cause pains to any living beings."
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Mahavira (Bhagavati Arädhanä, 797)
JAINISM AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING