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all the Karmas which restricted his knowledge, his seeing and his energy, disappear.
13. Sayogi-kevali-guṇasthāna. The saint is a Kevali, an omniscient one, in this stage. If there is an unusual case that he had got the "Tirthankara-karma" in the earlier existences, then this is realized here; he then becomes a Tirthankara, a founder or a restorer of the Jainachurch. The Sayogi-kevali knows everything, sees everything, is capable of everything, yet he has a body and a certain activity which is conditioned by matter, and a number of Karmas obtained earlier are produced in him; but as soon as the Karmas determining the quantum of life (Āyus) are exhausted, he annihilates all these. Accordingly, the Sayogi-condition lasts minimum for a duration of a Muhurta and maximum somewhat less than a Purvakoți. The moment the period given to it ends, the saint sinks into deep meditation and then ceases the cruder and finer activity of the mind, speech and body.
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14. Ayogi-kevali-guṇasthāna. The saint has no activity (Yoga) and Lesya in this transitory stage comprising only a period of a Muhurta.
Then he enters the Sailesi-condition as long as one needs to express 5 short syllables (a, i, u, ri, li). Gone into meditation he destroys then the rest of the Karmas which still exist. He has thus become free from every thing that is material-he is redeemed.
[Extracted from Helmuth von Glasenapp's Der Jainismus translated by S.B. Shroti, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1999].
