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void of all kinds of karma it attains liberation, the Divnity.45
The efforts for the attainment of Moksa are possible only for human beings in the karmabhumi. Even the Gods in heaven have to be reborn as human beings, if they have to strive for the attainment of Mokşa. The Jaina conception of Mokșa does not obliterate the individuality of each soul. It is neither merged nor is identical with anything higher than itself. Its individuality is not lost. There is a permanent personality of the soul even in the state of perfection, Divinity. It is attained through Right Intuition, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct (the Three Jewels of Jainism).
A soul in Mokșa is devoid of rebirth, attachment, aversion, pleasure, pain, misery, sufferings etc., and attains eternal bliss which is ultimate Divinity. Kéferences 1. Samayasāra 117. 2. Dravyasamgraha 32. 3. Sthānānga Sūtra 5.2.109; Saṁavāyānga Sūtra, 5; Tattvartha
Sūtra, VIII.1.
Daśavaikālika, 8. 5. Dravyasamgraha 33.
Ibid. Glassenapp, H.V., Doctrine of karman in Jaina philosophy, p.3.
Atharvaveda XVIII.3.71 9. Satapatha Brāhmana, XII.9.1.1. 10. Chāndogya Upanişad, V.10.7-8 11. Bịhadāranyka Upanişad, IV.4.3 12. Majhima Nikāya (PTS edition), Vol. III, p. 203. #3. Visuddhimagga, XVII.161. 14. Karma praksti, Nemichandracaryaviracita 6.
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