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निश्चयपरमावश्यक अधिकार
परमावश्यक अधिकार का उपसंहार Concluding remarks on the supreme devotion -
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11 - THE SUPREME ESSENTIAL
सव्वे पुराणपुरिसा एवं आवासयं य काऊण । अपमत्तपहुदिठाणं पडिवज्ज य केवली जादा ॥ १५८॥
समस्त पुराणपुरुष इस प्रकार आवश्यक कर अप्रमत्तादिक गुणस्थानों को प्राप्त करके केवली हुए हैं।
भावार्थ - जितने पुराणपुरुष अब तक केवली हुए हैं वे सब पूर्वोक्त विधि से प्रमत्तविरत नामक छठवें गुणस्थान में आवश्यक कर्म को करके अप्रमत्तादि गुणस्थानों को प्राप्त हुए हैं और तदनन्तर केवली हुए हैं।
Only by observing the essentials (avaśyaka) as detailed, all legendary-men (puraṇapuruşa) have attained omniscience (kevalajñāna) after (progressively) ascending the spiritual stages, like the perfect-vows-withoutnegligence – apramattasamyata (the seventh stage).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This gāthā specifies the fruit of observing the essentials (avasyaka). It implies that no legendary-men (purāṇapuruṣa) have ever attained omniscience (kevalajñāna), and, thereafter, liberation (moksa), without observing the essentials (āvasyaka). Only by observing the essentials (avasyaka), the ascetic is able to establish himself in virtuous-meditation (dharmyadhyāna) and pure-meditation (śukladhyāna). As a result, he climbs the steps on the ladder of spiritual development: apramattasamyata - perfect-vows-without-negligence (the seventh stage); apūrvakarana (upaśamaka and ksapaka) - unprecedented purity [rises further up in step (śreņi) with either subsidence or destruction of mohaniya karmas] (the eighth stage); anivṛttibādarasamparāya (upaśamaka and kṣapaka) - checking of
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