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शुद्धोपयोग अधिकार
performs expansion of the soul which is capable of ripening the karmas very quickly and destroying or reducing these; this is called kevali-samudghata. Here he practises comprehensive pervasion in the form of a stick (danda), a door (kapāta), an oblong (pratara), and filling up the universe (lokapūraṇa), in four instants and contracting to his former size immediately in another four instants. He thus makes the duration of all the four karmas equal, and through subtle bodily activity embraces the meditation of subtle activity sūkṣmakriyāpratipāti. And after that he commences the meditation of complete destruction of activity - vyuparatakriyanivarti, also called samucchinnakriyānivarti. This entails complete destruction of activity as there is disappearance of respiration and movement and vibration of the spatial units of the soul, arising from activities (yoga) of the body, the mind and the speech-organ. In this stage of meditation there is complete annihilation of influx (āsrava) of all kinds of bondage (of karmas). And in the Omniscient-without-activity - ayogakevali, endowed with the capacity of annihilating all karmas, there arise perfect conduct - yathākhyāta caritra, knowledge (jñāna), and faith (darśana), which are capable of destroying all kinds of cobwebs of worldly suffering, and which constitute the immediate cause of complete emancipation or final liberation. Thus, the saint in the fourteenth stage burns all karmas with the powerful fire of concentration, becomes purified like 24-carat gold, freed from dirt and other alloys, and attains eternal bliss.1
12- THE PURE-COGNITION
Immediately after attaining release from all karmas, the soul goes up to the summit of the universe.
1- see Acārya Umāsvāmi's Tattvärthasutra - With Explanation in English from Acarya Pujyapada's Sarvarthasiddhi, sūtra 9-44, p. 397-398.
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