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Soul Science : Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda
SamyagDarśana: Enlightenment with total suppression of belief-deluding Karma or spiritual-ignorance-Karma (Darśana Mohaniya Karma), (ii) Kṣāyopaśamika SamyagDarsana: Enlightenment with some traces of insignificant spiritual ignorance and without total destruction of spiritual-ignorance-Karma, and (iii) Kṣāyika SamyagDarśana: Enlightenment with total destruction of spiritual
ignorance-Karma. (iv) Out of these three, the enlightenment of the third type once
achieved exists forever. But the first two types of enlightenment can vanish and may reappear after some short or long time. In the technical language, a person with Upaśama SamyagDarśana or Kṣāyopaśamika Samyag Darśana may become a MithyāDịști again. Stanza 180 cautions to avoid such conversion of SamyagDarśana into MithyāDarśana by not abandoning the pure point of view. This stanza says that if one loses the understanding of the Self and others provided by the pure real point of view then he gets bonded with the new Karma (because with such loss he/she becomes a MithyāDrști). In other words, by forgetting the distinction between the soul and non-souls, as given by the pure point of view, an enlightened being turns back into an un-enlightened being.
There are many characteristics of an enlightened person. Here Ācārya Kundakunda highlights one characteristic that an enlightened being (Jñānī) is that who has not fallen from the understanding about the Self and others as provided by the pure real point of view. On the basis of this point, Ācārya Amộtacandra in Kalasa 122 emphasizes that one should not abandon the pure real point of view.
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