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dous stoppage is effected. He performs expansion of the soul capable of ripening the karmas very quickly and destroying or reducing them. Thus the self practises comprehensive pervasion in the form of a stick, a door, an oblong, filling up the entire universe in four instants and contracting to his former size immediately in another four instants. He thus makes the duration of all the four karmas equal, and through subtle bodily activity embraces the meditation of slight activity. And after that he commences the meditation of complete destruction of activity. This is called the complete destruction of activity, as there is disappearance of respiration and movement and vibration of the spatial units of the soul, arising from activities of the body, mind and speech-organ. In this stage of meditation there is complete annihilation of bondage and influx. And in the omniscient without activity endowed with the capacity of annihilating all karmas, there arise perfect conduct, knowledge and faith, which are capable of destroying all kinds of cobwebs of worldly suffering, and which constitute the immediate cause of complete emancipation or final liberation. Then the saint in the fourteenth stage burns all the remaining four karmas with the powerful fire of concentration, becomes purified like pure gold freed from dirt and other alloys and attains eternal bliss.
Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 274-275.
Ācārya Umasvami's Tattvārthasūtra
बन्धहेत्वभावनिर्जराभ्यां कृत्स्नकर्मविप्रमोक्षो मोक्षः ॥ औपशमिकादिभव्यत्वानां च ॥
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