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Śukla dhyāna
medha, klesa and karma disappear. But this occurs at the final stage of Yoga in this School.
Then come 3rd and the 4th stages of sukla dhyāna, i.e. sūkṣmakriya and samucchinna kriya. Here samucchinna kriya dhyana is the state of dhyāna revealed in the immediate sequel of sukṣma kriya dhyana, therefore it is called dhyāna in the sense of formality alone, for it does not involve any effort for its performance. Then sukṣma kriya dhyana alone should take the actual role in leading a sage to salvation. And this 3rd stage of dhyana involves the other important preparatory activities.
The sayogi kevali enjoys omniscient activities in the state of jivanmukti, however he is said to stop all his activities in preparation for liberation antarmuhurta prior to the expiration of his ayus karma, of which time point he is of course capable to know. There are three stages of performance that he has to go through before becoming the ayogi kevali who immediately becomes the sidda, i.e. (1) performance of kevali samudghata, (2) performance of stopping all his activities of body-speechmind excluding his subtle bodily activities and (3) performance of stopping his subtle bodily activities which is formally called sukṣma kriya dhyāna.
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Kevali samudghata is performed so that the lengths of vedaniya, nama and gotra karmas remaining in him become equal to the length of his ayuş karma in order that their fruits are enjoyed by him without residue. The lengths of the sayogi kevali's vedaniya, nāma and gotra are calculated to be longer than the length of his ayus karma. He first places himself or fixes the center of his body at the center of the universe which is a cubic point consisting of eight pradeśas (asta-pradesika-rucaka which is situated in the middle of the two small layers at the top of Ratnaprabha ). Then he expands the spatial units of his soul above and below like a stick at the first instant, to left and right like a door at the 2nd instant, to
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