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Niyamasara
सिद्ध परमेष्ठी का स्वरूप
The nature of the Liberated Soul (the Siddha) -
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णट्ठट्ठकम्मबंधा अट्ठमहागुणसमण्णिया परमा । लोयग्गठिदा णिच्चा सिद्धा ते एरिसा होंति ॥७२॥
जिन्होंने अष्ट कर्मों के बंध को नष्ट कर दिया है, जो आठ महागुणों से सहित हैं, उत्कृष्ट हैं, लोक के अग्र में स्थित हैं तथा नित्य हैं, वे ऐसे सिद्ध परमेष्ठी होते हैं।
नियमसार
The Liberated Souls (the Siddha) are rid of the eight kinds of karmas, endowed with supreme eight qualities (guna), most exalted, stay at the summit of the universe, and eternal (nitya).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The Arhat is the Lord who has attained omniscience (kevalajñāna) and is still associated with the corporeal body. He remains in this world until the end of his lifetime. The Siddha is the pure soul dissociated from the corporeal body, who has reached the topmost part of the universe, never to return again from that abode of eternal bliss to this terrestrial world.
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The liberated soul (Siddha) is rid of eight kinds of karmas, possessed of eight supreme qualities, has a form slightly less than that of the last body, resides at the summit of the universe, and is characterized by permanence (dhrauvya), origination (utpada) and destruction (vyaya). When the life-determining (ayuḥ) karma of the Omniscient Lord (sayogakevali) is within one muhurta (48 minutes), he embraces the highest order of pure concentration and annihilates the four nondestructive (aghāti) karmas - feeling producing (vedaniya), lifedetermining (ayuḥ), name-determining (nama), and status
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