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STAGES OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
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knowledge-obscuring, vision-obscuring and obstructive karmas and ultimately to the manifestation of omniscience.
THIRTEENTH STAGE OF
DEVELOPMENT
(Sayogakevali-guṇasthāna)
And on the attainment of omniscience, the spiritual practiser attains this stage. In the name of this stage there occurs the term 'sayoga' which means 'possessed of yoga'. The term 'yoga' in the Jaina philosophy has a technical sense. It means 'activity of the mind, the organ of speech and the body'. Even after the attainment of omniscience, he performs mental, vocal and bodily activities. He walks, speaks, etc. As he is having threefold activity, he is called sayoga. And as he is possessed of kevalajñāna (omniscience) he is called kevali. Thus he is the omniscient with threefold activity. So this stage is equivalent of what is known as jīvanmukta (the-liberated-while-living) stage in other systems of Indian philosophy.
FOURTEENTH STAGE OF
DEVELOPMENT
(Ayogi-kevall-guṇasthāna)
This is the spiritual stage where the practiser stops all his threefold activity with spiritual efforts and by means of the remaining two types of sukla-dhyāna, viz sūkṣmakriyā'pratipātī and samucchinnakriyā❜nivṛtti.
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Sūkṣmakriya'pratipāti: When the omnicient Lord, at the time of death, during the course of the process called cessation-ofyoga, ultimately takes recourse to a subtle bodily yoga (activity) while putting an end to all the remaining threefold activities, then this act is called sūkṣmakriyā'apratipäti-dhyāna. This stage of
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