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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
कर्मक्षय से मोक्ष की प्राप्ति - The attainment of liberation is the destruction of all karmas -
आउस्स खयेण पुणो णिण्णासो होइ सेसपयडीणं । पच्छा पावइ सिग्धं लोयग्गं समयमेत्तेण ॥१७६॥
फिर (केवली को) आयु के क्षय से शेष समस्त प्रकृतियों का सम्पूर्ण नाश होता है, पश्चात् वे समयमात्र में (शीघ्र ही) लोकाग्र को प्राप्त कर sa ei
With the termination of the life-determining (āyuh) karma of the Omniscient Lord, all remaining karmicsubtypes are destroyed completely. Immediately thereafter, in one instant (samaya), the soul reaches the summit of the universe (loka).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
When the duration of the life-determining (āyuḥ) karma is within one muhūrta, and the feeling-producing (vedanīya), the body-making (nāma) and the status-determining (gotra) karmas are of the same duration, the Tīrthańkara or the Omniscient (kevalī) gives up entirely the activities of the speech, the mind and the gross body. Taking help from slight bodily activity, he embraces the third type of pure meditation of subtle activity - sūkşmakriyāpratipāti. In case the duration of the life-determining (ayuh) karma is within one muhurta, but the duration of the feeling-producing (vedanīya), the body-making (nāma) and the status-determining (gotra) karmas is more, with remarkable exertion, he makes the duration of these three karmas same as the life-determining (āyuḥ) karma. He is endowed with the wonderful capacity by which stupendous stoppage is affected. He
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