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Liberation in Five Births
Birth 1 - Attains kshaayika samyaktva
Birth 2 - Reborn in heaven or hell
Birth 3 - Reborn as a human in the fifth era (where it is impossible to attain liberation, this happens only because one's time is not yet matured to gain liberation)
Birth 4 - Reborn in heaven
Birth 5 - Reborn as a human and attains liberation in this birth (This time reborn in the place where liberation is possible).
The soul who has attained kshaayopashamika samyaktva can progress to the stage of kshaayika samyaktva provided he constantly keeps purifying his disposition. Kshaayika samyaktva is only attained in the era when omniscients are present on this earth. The seeds of kshaayika samyaktva are laid during birth as a human being. The complete attainment of kshaayika samyaktva is only possible during birth as a human being. In between the living being may be reborn in any of the four gatis classes of worldly beings - as a human, as a hellish being, as a celestial being or as a sub-human (plant/animal/bird/insect/reptile, etc). And, irrespective of the gati of his birth, the living being completely annihilates his remaining quantum of the deluded false belief causing karmas. Only after complete annihilation of the deluded false belief causing karmas will he attain kshaayika samyaktva.
The living being has to be at least eight years of age in order to attain kshaayika samyaktva. Also, the living being has to be born with the vajra-vrishabha-naaraacha-shanghayana (the strongest skeletal structure possible with incredibly strong bones and joints}.
The ShatkhandAagama, the Lati Samhita and other Jain scriptures of the Digambara tradition write about the emergence of kshaayika samyaktva:
"Khaaliye sammato jattha puna jina kevalam tammi”
Samyagdharshana; (Page 342, Author: Ashokmuni, Publisher: Diwaakarjyoti Karyaalaya, Byaawar (Rajasthan), year 1981)
Kshaayika samyaktva is attained when the seeker is in the presence of the Tirthankaras, other omniscients and shruta-kevalis <scripture omniscients.
Kshaayika samyaktva is attained by those who devoutly place themselves at the feet of the Tirthankaras and other omniscients.
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