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on the ninth stage. The soul on the tenth stage having progressed by the same ladder stops manifestation of 'Sanjwalana-greed' by the ending time.
Pacifying soul retrogrades from the eleventh stage while the Kshapaka soul overtaking the eleventh stage reaches the twelfth stage and entertains pure meditation with two grounds.
This stage prevails for one Antar-Muhurta and the same belongs only to 'Kshapaka soul. Three 'Atrocious' (Ghati) karmas are destroyed in the last period of the twelfth stage.
(13) THE STAGE OF OMNISCIENCE WITH ENCUMBRANCE
(Sayogi—Kevali—Guna–Sthana) No sooner is the second ground of pure meditation terminated than the soul annihilates Karmas obsessing knowledge, intuition and power, whereby all the four atrocious karmas are destroyed and omniscience and all pervading intuition are revealed. The soul then attains the stage of omniscience with encumbrance. Now soft karma like feeling producing, name and family determining ones remain to be destroyed. At this stage the Soul enjoys perfect non-attachment and therefore, it suffers the fruits of 'Soft-Karmas' without elaboration and with equanimity of mind.
These souls are Gods with 'Omniscience' in the form of mental, oral and physical activities and that is why they are described as "with encumbrance". The stage arrived at by such souls is the stage named 'Sayogi-Kevali-Guna-Sthana'.
The souls with omniscience resting on this stage move from place to place preaching the worldly souls, whereas, the prophet-gods with omniscience revealed, provide a great means of salvation to the worldly souls by establishing the holy institutions in the form of four-fold community.
The Souls resting on this stage do not undergo any form of meditation but they are in a "trance" stage. The Soul on this stage is God having non-temporal existence. This stage continues for a minimum period of one 'Antar-Muhurta' and maximum period of one 'crore Purva' less by eight years.
The soul resting on this stage has to get rid of vibrations of the regions of the soul in order to annihilate all soft karmas ; but
