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Prasamarati
II Story
283. Such a Mahātmā, after the last stages of Yoganirodha is also free from the six types of Lesyas (see Appendix II ̧ No.1). The Atman, as a result of the infinite strength that is now its nature, becomes still and unshakable like the great Meru mountain. This state is called Śaileśī (rock-like). The very short time that the Atman remains in this stage is equal to the time it takes to pronounce the five short vowels (i.e. A, I, U, R and Lṛ. (This takes place at the fourteenth Guṇasthāna).
284 & 285. During the period the Atman is in the Saileśī state, the Jiva arranges the particles of the four Karmas in the following order as in a ladder form: The second rung has infinitely more quantity than the first, the third rung has infinitely more quantity than the second and so on. (The total number of rungs equals the number of Samayas in the state of Saileśī. The Karmas on the first rung are destroyed in the first Samaya, those on the second rung are destroyed in the second Samaya and so on... till, when at the end of this Śaileśī state all are destroyed in totality. (Now the Atman is totally liberated - it only remains for it to reach the final destination at the top-most level of the cosmos known as Siddhaksetra.
286, 287 & 288. The three bodies, namely, Audarika, Taijasa and Karmana are what one always gets, hence, they are the root causes of this world, where one goes into one of the four states of life. Having given up these three bodies, and being free from birth, disease, oldage and death, the Mahātmā goes, straight, without touching any substance, without any turning and without any stopping on the way and in one Samaya only, to the topmost part of the cosmos where there is the pure and holy Siddhakṣetra, and reaches there with Sākāra upayoga and lives there as a Siddha (Liberated soul) with both Sākāra and Nirākāra Upayoga (see yerse 194.)
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