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Praśamarati
by destroying the Karmas - this is known as Kșapakaśreņi and the path leads to 8th to 9th to 10th to 12th and to 13th Guņasthāna in a period of Antarmuhūrta (i.e. less than forty-eight minutes). 13th is the state of Omniscience with body and mind. (The 14th being without body and mind). The other path is by subduing and suppressing the Karmas - this is known as Upaśamaśreņi and the path leads to 8th - 9th - 10th and 11th in a period of Antarmuhurta. From the 11th Jiva invariably falls down either to the 4th or even lower - in fact can go below the 1st also. But it should be noted that once a Jiva has trodden on the path of Upaśamaśreņi he is very near to Liberation; because, in one's entire cycles of births and rebirths a maximum of four attempts to Liberation through Upaśamaśreņi are there, the fifth one (if an earlier one is not such) is invariably of Kșapakaśreņi, which as stated above leads to Liberation.)
vi) Kṣāyika + Pāriņāmika is there in a Jīva who has reached Liberation and is in the state without body and mind (Siddha). The above three together with the earlier twelve make a total of fifteen conditions.
