Book Title: Primer of Jain Principles
Author(s): Kirit Gosalia
Publisher: Kirit Gosalia

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________________ The one to be added is the tirthankar body making karma. 553. How many types of karma remain in dormancy at this thirteenth spiritual developmental stage? In the twelfth spiritual developmental stage, 101 types remained in dormancy. Delete sixteen of these and eighty-five remain in dormancy in the thirteenth stage. Sixteen to be omitted are as follow: • Five knowledge obscuring karma (5 Gnanavarniya karma) • Five obstructing karma (5 Antray karma) • Four perception obscuring karmas (4 Darshanavarniya karma) • Light sleep (Nindra) • Sound sleep (Prachala). Chapter # 4.16 Fourteenth spiritual development stage. 554. What is the nature of the fourteenth spiritual developmental stage, the inactive omniscient (Ayogi kevali) and who is eligible to receive it? The omniscient lord in this stage becomes devoid of mind, speech and bodily actions and enters a stage of inactive omniscient. This fourteenth spiritual developmental stage lasts for a very short time. During this spiritual developmental stage, when there are two samays remaining, the soul annihilates 72 types of karma; and, in the last samay, thirteen types of karma are annihilated. The soul is now absolutely pure and devoid of all karma, and travels in one samay to the adobe of Sidhdha. There, this Sidhdha soul remains forever in a state of permanent everlasting happiness. 555. How many types of karma bondage occur in this fourteenth spiritual developmental stage? In the fourteenth spiritual developmental stage, there are absolutely no bondage of any karma at all. 136

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