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as when bodily life ends).
273 & 274. The activity of Samudghāta lasts for eight Samayas. (Note that in the time taken to bat one's eyelids, an infinite numbers of Samayas are there. Hence we are talking of an infinitely small time period). In the first Samaya, the subtle parts of the Atman are arranged in the manner of a pole, whose thickness and breadth is of the size of one's body, and the length or height is of the size of the entire Cosmos ! In the second Samaya, the pole becomes the shape of a wooden plank. Now the breadth is also equal to the width of the entire Cosmos : In the third Samaya, in the 90° directions from the middle of the plank, the breadth is extended on both sides to be equal to the length of the cosmos. Now we have two wooden planks both equal in height and breadth to the cosmos, stuck together 90° from each other in the middle as per the thickness of one's body. In the fourth Samaya this structure is completely filled with subtle parts of the Ātman, Now the Ātman of the Omniscient fills the entire Cosmos ! (Just as dust gathered in a folded sheet gets shaken up and fully and evenly spread out when the sheet is opened and shaken, in the same way the three remaining Karma particles get equalized and the extra ones are shed off). In the fifth Samaya here is shrinking and we have the double plank formation. In the sixth Samaya the single plank formation, in the seventh Samaya the long pole formation and in the eighth Samaya the subtle parts rearrange themselves in their original shape inside the body of the Omniscient.
275 & 276. This process of Samudghāta is done through the activity of body Kāyayoga. (Kāyayoga is of seven types : 1) .udārika - the normal body of a human or animal/bird/ insect. 2) Audārikamiśra - A body comprising both the Audārika and the Kimana body together. (For a worldly Jīva two bodies are always
