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P.S. Jaini, p. 147. "Previously he has identified his being in external signs of life--the body, states, possessions, thus he has been in the state known as bahirātman, seeing the self in externals dominated by the consciousness which is aware only of the results of karma (karma-phala-cetanā)...... This orientation depends on the false notion that one can be the agent (kartā) of change in other beings;....." P.S. Jaini, p. 150. “This awareness of the basic worth of all beings, and of one's kinship with them, generates a feeling of great compassion (unukampā) for others. Whereas the compassion felt by an ordinary man is tinged with pity or with attachment to its object, anukampă is free of such negative aspects; it develops purely from wisdom, from seeing the substance (dravya) that underlies visible modes, and it fills the individual with an unselfish desire to help other souls towards mokşa." P.S. Jaini, p. 159. “In the last few moments of embodiment, even yoga is brought to cessation; this state of utter immobility is called omniscience without activities (avoga-kevalin), the fourteenth guṇasthāna. At the instant of death (nirvāņa). itself, the soul is freed forever from the last vestige of samsāric influence; ..."
