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glory. The Siddha's or the Liberated Beings are unconnected with all kinds of the Karma; they live in the Siddhasilā at the summit of Lokākāśa or filled space, they have transcended the Samsāra, the series of mundane existences and are emancipated, free souls.
THE SOUL OF THREE KINDS
ASIDDHA, NO-SIDDHA AND SIDDHA
The souls may also be divided into three classes viz:Samsāri or Mundane (otherwise called the Asiddha), Jivanmukta or Liberated-in-Life (otherwise called the No-siddha) and Siddha or Liberated. The Mundane soul is one which is attached to the Karma. The Karma is of two sorts, Ghātiya or destructive and Aghātiyā or non-destructive. The soul advancing on the way to salvation goes on breaking the ties of Karma, one after the other. At that auspicious moment when the soul struggling towards the Emancipation renounces the world and perfectly annihilates the four forms of the Ghātiyā-karma, it reaches the thirteenth Guņasthāna,-a state in which it is liberated although still alive or belonging to this world. It is then called the Jivanmukta or liberated-in-life, the Sayoga-kevali or Omniscient-with attachment (for it is still attached to the Aghātiyā or nondestructive Karma's) and the No-Siddha or Not-fullyperfect (because it is not yet completely emancipated). The physical body is still attached to the Jivanmukta although for all intents and purposes such a soul is an Emancipated soul. Owing to the destruction of GhātiyāÞarma's, it attains the Kevala-jñāna i.e. pure knowledge or omniscience and is possessed of Infinite Perception, Infinite Joy, Infinite Knowledge and Infinite Power. The omniscient soul which is liberated-in-life is of two kinds viz:--the Ordinary Omniscient soul (Sāmānya-kevali) and the Venerable (Arhat). The Sāmānya-kevalins effect their own salvation only. The Arhat, on the contrary, teaches the way to the salvation of all the mundane souls. The
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