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THE JAINA GAZETTE
The Jiva of Three kinds.
The souls may also be divided into three classes vix, Samsari or Mundane (otherwise called the Asiddha). Jivanmukta or Liberated-in-life (otherwise called the No-Siddha) and Siddha or Liberated. The Mundane Soul is one which is attached to the karma. The karma is of two kinds, Ghaliya or destructive or Aghatiya or non-destructive. The soul advancing on the way to salvation goes on breaking the ties of Karma, one after the other. At that auspicious moment when the soul, struggling towards the Emancipation, renounces the world and perfectly annihilates the four forms of the Ghatiya-karma, it reaches the thirteenth Gunasthana, a state in which it is Liberated although still alive or belonging to this world. It is then called the Jivanmukta or Liberated-in-life, the Sayoga-kevali or Omniscient-with-attachment (for it is still attached to the Aghatiya or non-destructive karmas), and the No-siddha or Notfully-perfect (because it is not yet completely emancipated). The physical body is still attached to the Jivanmukta, although for all intents and purposes such a soul is an Emancipated soul. Owing to the destruction of the Ghatiya Karmas, it attains the Kevala-jnana i.e, pure knowledge or omniscience and is possessed of Infinite Perception, Infinite Joy, Infinite knowledge and Infinite Power. The Omniscient soul which is Liberated-in-life is of two kinds viz., the Ordinary-Omniscientsoul (Samanya Kevali) and the Venerable (Arhat). The Samanyakevalins effect their own salvation only. The Arhat on the contrary, teaches the way to the salvation of all the mundane souls. The Arhat is otherwise called the Tirthankara; because through his instructions, he makes the Tirtha (landing steps) for all beings who are afraid of the Samsara. He is called the Tirthankara, also because he addresses the Tirtha or the congregation of the four orders viz., the monks (Sadhu), the nuns (Aryika), the house-holders, men (Sravaka) and the house-holders, women (Sravika). The Arhat is so called because the gods with their lords offer him Arha or worship with great pomp and ceremony at the times, (1) when he enters the mother's womb, (2) when he is born, (3) when he renounces the world, (4) when Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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