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niya and antaraya karmas are also destroyed and the individual no more remains a struggling aspirant. He becomes a kevali, an omniscient one, and obtains perfect faith, bliss and power. The four aghātin karmas however remain due to which physical, mental and vocal activities called yoga continue but which do not entail bondage. Person in this stage is called Arhat or Sarvajña and is equivalent to Jivanmukta of Vedanta.
14th Ayogi-kevali Guṇasthāna
At the natural exhaustion of aghatin karmas, responsible for the specific body, stipulated duration of life and experiences, the soul attains this stage of perfect freedom. He is now a siddha. The duration of this stage is the shortest, equivalent to the time required to pronounce five short vowels of sanskrit alphabet. It is called ayogi because there is absence of all physical, vocal and mental activity, which in Jainism is called yoga. This state compares well with the Videha-mukti of Vedanta.
Summary
JAIN JOURNAL
According to Jainism there are five conditions of bondage; viz. perversity of attitude (mithyātva), non-abstinence from sense-pleasures and violence (avirati), spiritual inertia or carelessness (pramāda), passions or evil tendencies (kaṣāya) and threefold activity of the body, speech and mind (yoga).
Of these mithyātva is first to go in the fourth stage of samyag-dṛṣṭi. Lay and monastic vows in the fifth and sixth stages eliminate avirati. Pramada is removed in the seventh stage. The destruction of the four kaşayas takes the longest. Starting from the fourth stage it is completed in the twelfth stage. Finally the threefold yoga ends in the last stage.
Of the four types of thinking (dhyāna) raudra dhyāna persists upto sixth stage. This means that even after taking monastic vows undesirable thoughts may persist. Arta dhyana, another undesirable thinking dominated by sorrow and depression may persist upto eleventh stage. Dharma dhyana starts in fourth (and third) stage and reaches its culmination in the eleventh. The aspirant is able to do the first of the four types of pure thinking (śukala dhyāna) in the seventh stage but is
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