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GOMMÀTASARA.
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152. The condition of Liberation (Siddha-Gati) is that in which there are no birth, dotage, death or fear, (no) miseries arising from (undesirable accompaniments, and from deprivation (of desirable objects), (no) animatefeelings, and no diseases, etc.
Commentary. The condition of liberated souls is described here. Liberation Toplies freedom from Karmic matter, which shrouds the real glory of the soul, drags it into various conditions, and makes it experience multifarious pleasures and pains. But when all the Karmas are destroyed the soul, which by nature has got an up-ward motion rises to the highest point of the Universe-the Siddha-shila and there lives for endless time in the enjoyment of its own glorious qualities unencumbered by the worldly pleasures or pains. This is the ideal condition of a soul. सामण्णा णेरइया घणअंगुल बिदियमूलगुणसेढी। बिदियादि बारदसडछत्तिदुणिजपदहिदा सेढी ॥ १५३॥
सामान्या नैरयिका घनांगुलद्वितीयमूलगुणश्रेणी। द्वितीयादिः द्वादशदशाष्टषब्रिद्विनिजपदहिता श्रेणी ॥ १५३ ॥
153. Hellish souls in all fare equal to the number of the spatial units in) (Jagat) shreņi (the universe line) multiplied by the second square root (i. e, the fourth root) of one cubic finger (ghanangula). (Hellish souls) in the second and other (i, e, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh hells are in number equal to the quotient of the spatial units of the (universal) line divided by its own twelyth, tenth, eighth, sixth, third and second root (respectively).
Commentary, This gatha gives the method for calculating the number of hellish beings in total, and in each hell. The method may be illustrated thus. Suppose one cubic finger (ghanángula) to be 16 spatial units, and the universal line = 256 S. U. Then the total number of all hellish souls would be 256 x 16 - 256 X 94 - 256 X 2-512.
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