________________ Verse 153 sukladhyana: The pure soul of the Tirthankara or other Omniscient (kevali) shines like the sun coming out of the clouds. It is worthy to be venerated and worshipped by the lords of the world. And now the Omniscient Lord moves from place to place preaching the Truth to the world up to a maximum period of a little less than purvakoti years. When the duration of his life-determining (ayuh) karma is within one muhurta, and the feeling-producing (vedaniya), the body-making (nama) and the status-determining (gotra) karmas are of the same duration, he 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 - suksmakriyapratipati. In case the duration of his life-determining (ayuh) karma is within one muhurta, but the duration of the feeling-producing (vedaniya), the body-making (nama) and the status-determining (gotra) karmas is more, with remarkable exertion, he makes the duration of these three karmas same as the life-determining (ayuh) karma. He is endowed with the wonderful capacity by which stupendous stoppage is affected. He performs expansion of the soul which is capable of ripening the karmas very quickly and destroying or reducing these; this is called kevali-samudghatal. Here he practises comprehensive pervasion in the form of a stick (danda), a door (kapata), an oblong (pratara), and filling up the universe (lokapurana), 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 - suksmakriyapratipati. And after that he commences the meditation of 1. "kevali-samudghata': The Omniscient emanates from his body the spatial units of his soul, without wholly discarding the body, for the purpose of levelling down the duration of the other three non-destructive karmas to that of the age-karma. The soul fills up the entire universe and contracts back to the size of the body in eight instants, just prior to attaining liberation. . . . . . . . . . . 291
