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evolution (Sarva Virati) which consists in totally discarding the fivefold sins of violence etc. When he gives up the cause of bondage called 'negligence', he reaches the seventh stage of spiritual evolution (Apramatta Sàmyàma) which consits in self-restraint without distraction. Thereafter, when the soul exhibits an unprecedented inner strength and destroys the passions extremely subtly it goes on to reach the other stages (viz. the eighth stage and so on called APURVAKARANA and so on) and while at the end of the tenth stage ( Ksina Moha) of spiritual development, the soul becomes passionless because it's dellusions and distractions have become extinct. These stages are the 11th and the 12th stages of evolution. Threafter, he reaches the 13th stage of evolution when the veils of the Karmas which veil the soul's endless knowledge and which destroy all the good and bad qualities of the Karmas of the soul, are destroyed. Then it becomes omniscient and obstains the four infinities. Thereafter, at the time of the destruction of the effects of the Karma pertaining to length of life, when the soul totally stops its activities, it mounts on to the 14th stage of the supreme soul or (Ayogi -Kevali) and while it is there, within the space of the utterance of five simple vowels, the soul destroys its remaining Karmas and becomes entirely liberated from any and every Karma and remains pure, awakened and free and attains to salvation by becoming absolved from the World.
This system as devised by Jainism suggests that, as the different substances in the universe have certain peculiarites or a special nature,in the
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