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Liberation - Everlasting & Endless There may arise a doubt - according to law a thing that is produced must always get destroyed so liberation too must end at some time as it is produced. However, liberation is not something producible. Liberation is nothing but the removal of all karmas from the soul. No new thing quality) is produced in it, so there is no question of its destruction or end. When the cloud moves away the bright sunshines, when the covering of karmas get removed, the soul is manifest in its original nature. So nothing is produced through the process of liberation for it to get destroyed.
The soul that has attained absolute purity on the total removal of all karmas does not bind any karma and consequently is never born again in this world.
Total Removal of all Karmas Possible How can the beginningless bondage of the karmas with the soul be ended or destroyed? It is because there is a rule that the beginningless thing can have no end. In answer to this we are told that new karmas are bound and some old karmas are dissociated. This means that no bondage of an individual karma is beginningless, but the stream of bondage taking place at different consecutive moments has been flowing from beginningless time. In other words every karma has a life span, no individual karma is bound with the soul from time immemorial. From this follows that it is quite possible for the soul to disassociate all the bound karmas as well as to stop the inflow of new karmas into it by the force of pure concentration. This ultimately makes it possible for the soul to eradicate completely all the karmas and to become absolutely free from them.
Moreover, if we observe the worldly souls, we find that in some the degree of attachment and aversion is greater, in others it is less. The degree of its intensity may vary from person to person too. Surely this has a cause. Now if the cause of gradual decrease of attachment and aversion is developed to its fullness, it will completely destroy attachment and aversion. The cause of this decrease is wholesome mental activity or reflection. When the wholesome mental reflections become very strong ultimately resulting in purest mental concentration, then attachment and aversion get destroyed. And, on their destruction the soul attains the state absolutely free from the coverings of karmas.
And then the infinite knowledge (omniscience) manifests itself. The whole palace of the worldly existence rests on the pillars of attachment & aversion. These two are the root cause of deluding karma or delusion. So if these two are destroyed, then karmas get destroyed.
Establishment of the Existence of Omniscience
On the destruction of aversion & attachment, the deluding karmas gets totally disassociated from the soul. As a result of this the other three ghati karmas i.e. knowledge & vision covering karma & obstructible karma get completely eliminated. As a result of this, infinite knowledge gets fully manifested. The following proof is offered of its existence.
