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Reals in the Jaina Metaphysics
all the four forms of the Ghātiyā Karma in him and has been possessed of the pure omniscient knowledge is the Jina or Arhat. The omniscient Arhat is in the thirteenth Guņasthāna and the Jaina sacred books call him Iśvara--the Lord. Even in so exalted a Being the Parīşaha’s--Kșut, Pipāsā, Sīta, Uşņa, Damsa-masaka, Çaryā, Sayyā, Badha, Roga, Trņa-sparśa and Mala,--are present implicitly though not in an explicit form.
It is only the blessed Siddha's who are above the Parīşaha, absolutely free from the influence of Karma. At the topmost peak of the universe, called the Siddha-silā, a place of undisturbed peace and tranquility, free from Karma, from Bandha, from Saṁsāra, from Parīşaha, live the Siddhas, "from eternity to eternity” possessed of the four blessed Infinities.
JĪVA, IN BONDAGE SINCE THE BEGINNINGLESS TIME, UNTIL IT IS FINALLY LIBERATED
From all that have been said above, it is not to be thought however, that the soul is originally pure and that at a certain point of time it lost its purity by coming in contact with Karma-matter and had a “fall". The Indian systems are unanimous on the doctrine that it is from the beginningless time that the soul is in bondage and that on account of Karma, whatever it may be, it is moving in the re-incarnating series. The Jaina doctrines of Asrava and Bandha do not refer to any chronological “for the first time”. The soul is in Bandha or union with Karma-corpuscles from the beginningless time and the latter are ever flowing into it. As a matter of fact, the Jaina's assert that every Pradeśa or infinitesimal point in Lokākāśa or mundane sphere has in it one Pradeśa of both matter and soul. Soul and matter are thus mixed up in the world and this mixture is an unstable grouping, so to say, ever yielding to fresh groupings and re-groupings, until on emancipation, the two principles are finally and once for all separated. But it is the Karmaforce which determines the bodily and other environments of the soul from births to births. This doctrine of re-in
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