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2. THE SIDDHA
The soul which is out of the drift of the bodies produced by eight kinds of karma, which is the seer and knower of the entire cosmos and which stays at the summit of universe is Siddha. 190 Siddha is characterised by free from body, no misery, the enjoyment of the perfect bliss and peace, perfect purity and perfect holiness, non-destruction and possession of perfect knowledge and intuition." He is established on the peak of the universe which is eternal and not decaying. 192 When a jiva annihilates all karmas, 193 he becomes Siddha.194 Siddha is free from karmas also is free from ten kinds of Dravya Pranas, is free from worldly pleasure and pain195 and he possesses four Bhava Pranas.196 He possesses perfect knowledge, perfect perception, infinite power, infinite bliss undisturbability, extreme fineness, interpenetrability and is neither heavy nor light.197 Siddha is one who has burnt the impurities of karmas through meditation and has becomes eternally immaculate.198 Siddha possesses the following eight excellent attributes. 199
i) Samyaktva : It is a perfect unanimity with self (atma).
ii) Kevala-jnana : It is omniscience. Nothing remains unknown in kevala-jnana (perfect knowledge).
iii) Kevala-darshana : In this attribute everything in the universe existent in the present, past and the future is at once cognised.
iv) Ananta-virya : It is the absence of fatigue in having knowledge of infinite substances.
v) Sukshma : It literary means finally fineness and the possession of this quality makes a Siddha incapable of being perceived by the senses, which can perceive only the gross bodies.
vi) Avagaha : It is interpenetrability. A Siddha can allow others to exist without obstruction, just as the light of a lamp does not prevent the inter-penetrating of the light of other lamps.
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