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PATII OF LIBERATION
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(562 & 563) It is stated in the eternal holy scriptures that a monk who has destroyed the darkness of his ignorance by an assemblage of the rays of the sun of Omniscience, has obtained knowledge of the supreme soul on account of having acquired nine super ordinary and is equipped with determinate and indeterminate types of cognition requiring no help of external instruments i. e. senses is called sayogi-kevalin. Though he is a Kevalin (Omniscient) yet undertakes mental, vocal and bodily activities.
(564) The personage who has assumed the state called śaileśī (i. e. state of utterfreedom from all activity whatsoever). In whom the entire karmic inflow has been put to a stop, who is free from the dirt of kama is called kevalin, devoid-of-activities.
(565) The moment, the pure soul reaches this stage, it goes upward straight to the top of the universe according to its natural attribute, remains there forever in a disembodied form and endowed with the eight supreme attributes.
(566) The emancipated souls are ones who are devoid of the eight types of karmas, having attained peace, are devoid of all thought of blemish, are eternal, are equipped with eight auspicious qualifications, are such as have already accomplished whatever had to be accomplished and are residing at the top of the universe.
33. PRECEPTS ON PASSIONLESS DEATHS
(567) The body is called a boat, the soul is a boatman, the worldly existence is an ocean which the great sages cross over.
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