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289. The Siddha Jīva attains the joy, happiness, peace and tranquillity which is with a beginning and which has no end. It is incomparable and has no pain and anxiety ever associated with it. Such a Jīva also has the right faith and vision, omniscience of a specific and general nature and which never diminishes nor is ever destroyed, i.e. of the Kṣāyīka variety).
290. The Siddha Jiva is Real and not “Non-existing" (as believed by other scriptures), and is never destroyed for four reasons : 1) Svalakṣaṇa - the quality of specific and general knowledge is at all times and hence is also there in Mokșa. 2) Svataḥ Artha-Siddha - these qualities are the Nature of Atman (Just as one cannot ask why the nature of fire is to be hot, similarly one cannot ask the question why the Atman has these qualities). 3) Bhāvāntara-sankrānti - in this world nothing is destroyed, it merely changes or undergoes a transformation. Hence a Siddha Jīva can never be destroyed. 4) Sarvajñavacana - because the Omniscient has said so.
291. After giving up the bondage of body (and mind) and destroying the eight-fold Karmas, the Mahātmā does not live in Saṁsāra (four cornered world). There are three reasons for this: 1) Absence of cause -the basic cause is the acquisition of the eight-fold Karmas - these are now absent. 2) Absence of support - because here is no more any body and 3) Absence of the activities of body, speech and mind - because there is no body or mind.
292. The Mukta (Liberated) Ātman does not go downward because there is no “heaviness' in it at all; it is very very light and like all light things it goes upward. Just as a ship cannot go to a region beyond water, so also the Mukta-ātman does not go to the Aloka region beyond the cosmos because there is no Dharmāstikāya there, without which no motion is possible.
