$JES 901 Jainism and Spiritual Awakening E9

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

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is slowly able to remove passions such as anger, ego, deceit, and greed from his nature.
At the perfection of Right Conduct, he destroys all Conduct Deluding karma (Chäritra Mohaniya karma) and becomes totally free from passions. This is known as an attainment of Vitaräga state or state of no passions (12th stage of Gunasthänak).
Once all Mohaniya karma (faith and conduct deluding karma) are exhausted, the remaining three Ghäti karma: Jnänävaraniya Karma, Darshanävaraniya Karma, and Antaraya Karma are destroyed naturally and automatically within 48 minutes and without any further effort. This is known as attainment of a Keval-jnän state (13th stage of Gunasthänak known as Sayogi-kevali).
Removal of four Ghäti karma and Soul attains:
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Anant-sukha or infinite happiness/joy on 12th stage
Keval-jnän (Omniscience) or infinite knowledge on 13th stage
Keval-darshan (Omni perception) or infinite perception on 13th stage
Anant-virya or infinite power and energy on 13th stage
by removing all Mohaniya-karma.
by removing all Jnänävaraniyakarma
by removing all Darshanävaraniya
karma
by removing all Antaräya-karma.
After the destruction of all Ghäti Karma, a Kevali or Arihanta continues to live a human life as an ascetic and delivers sermons at various places. This way his activities of body, speech, and mind are used to spread the message of non-violence, compassion, nonpossessiveness, and pluralism view.
When he realizes that his life's span is near the end, he freezes his activities of body, speech, and mind. This is the 14th and last stage of Gunasthänak known as Ayogi-kevali. He lives at this stage for few seconds. Shortly after that, the person (Soul) completes all his four Aghäti Karma which happens at the time of death or nirvana, and attains total liberation.
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