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is easy to understand this by a rough example. A huge forest is set on fire. The setting of the fire begins the consuming of the forest, but if steadily increasing streams of oil are added to the fire from all sides, the rate of consumption would increase at an incredible rate in a very short-time and the huge forest would gradually be a heap of ashes. The forest of karmas begins to be consumed by the fire of right belief. But the consumption is swift and most concentrated when the thought-activity of right conduct is taking the soul from stage to stage till it reaches Nirvana and is absorbed for ever in its own thought-activity.
The shedding relates to all the karmas except the age-karma (áyu).
This innumerable fold intensity of the shedding appears at the time of rising from one stage into another.
अट्टविहकम्मवियला सीदीभूदा णिरंजणा णिच्चा। अहगुणा किदकिच्चा लोयग्गणिवासिणो सिद्धा ॥ ६८॥ अष्टविधकर्मधिकलाः शीतीभूतानिरञ्जना नित्याः। अष्टगुणाः कृतकृत्याः लोकाग्रनिवासिनः सिद्धाः ॥ ६८॥
68. Free from 8 kinds of Karmas, all-blissful, undefiled by karmic inflow, ever-lasting, possessed of 8 qualities, having accomplished all that was to be accomplished, (and) abiding at the summit of the universe-(such souls are) the liberated (Siddhas).
Commentary,
The 8 attributes.
Manifests itself on the destruc
tion of.
1. Perfect knowledger (Kevala- Knowledge-obscuring jnána).
(Jnáná varniya karma). 2. Perfect conation (Kevala Dar- Conation-obscuring (Darhsanashana).
varniya) karma. 3. Infinite power (Anant Virya) Obstructive (Antaráya) karma. . 4. Perfect right-belief (Sam- | Deluding (Mohoniya) karma.
yaktva). 5. Undisturbability (Avya- | Feeling (Vedaniya) karma.
vádha). 6. Extreme fineness(Súkshmatva) Body-making (Náma) karma 7. Interpenetrability (Avagá-Age (Ayuh) karma.
hanatva). 8. Neither of low nor high fa- Family-determining (Gotra) mily (Agurulaghu).
karma.
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