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nya karma have attained omniscience and stand on a far higher platform than we do. The latter portion of this stage is occupied with Sukla dhyana or pure contemplation which reaches its culmination or highest perfection when the body disappears like burnt comphor as will be described in the next stage. It is the man at this stage that people worship; for in the next the person adored loses all earthly interest and shuffles off his mortal coil.
The next stage begins when all influence of karma energetics has either been successfully dessipated or entirely destroyed. The man at this stage attains moksha and is called Siddha or the Self-Realized. In such stage the Siddhas do not merge themselves in an all-embracing One, but remain in the Siddhasila or the Region of the Liberated as freed souls, enjoying perfect freedom from every sort of bondage caused by karma particles. Siddhas, being omniscient and omnipotent, must have right vision and right knowledge revealing them spontaneously in their right conduct. Such Tirthas, breaking loose from the shackles of mortal coil and
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