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228 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS śukla-dhyāna is, in fact, not of the nature of mental concentration. So to call it dhyāna is merely a convention. Regarding it we are told that just as steadiness of mind is called dhyāna so also steadiness of body can also be called dhyāna. In this state of śukla-dhyāna there proceed only the subtle bodily activities like inbreathing and outbreathing - and there is no possibility of downfall from this state. Therefore it is called sūksmakrivā (accompanied with subtle bodily activities) and apratipāti (infallible).
Samucchinnakriyā'nivrtti : When even the subtle bodily. activities cease altogether and the soul concerned becomes free of all activities, then the state is called samucchinnakriyā' nivsttidhyāna. For in this state there takes place no activitiy whatsoever - whether gross or subtle and whether pertaining to mind, speech or body; and there is no possibility of downfall from it. Through the instrumentality of this fourth type of sukla-dhyāna all karmic inflow and all karmic bondage cease altogether, the soul becomes completely free from all karmas, attains liberation, leaving the mortal body moves upward and within a moment reaches the end of the universe, and remains there motionless. This stage of śukladhyāna lasts only for a moment.
Ayogi means one free from all activities or operations. As soon as the omniscient in the embodied state becomes free from all activities, he leaves his body and attains the disembodied state of liberation.
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