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or purging is of the two kinds sakama and akama. When a jiva intentionally conducts himself in such way as would purge his soul out of all impurities, it is called sakâm nirjard; but when karma bargands are left to themselves for their own falling off from the constitution of the soul in their natural course, it is called akama nirjara. Nirjará bhåvan a implies, therefore, the thinking of the ways and means of voluntarily getting rid of the karma-matter infesting the soul with the express intention
of attaining to beatitude. (10) Lokaswabhava bhavana--means the
thinking on the symbolic conception of the universe as given in the Jain scriptures. The sun, the moon, the earth, the planets and stars; the physical sky, the hell, the heaven and the like constitute one composite universe according to the Jain system of thought. Its form and configuration is
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