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JAINA YOGA
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We now come to the eighth dṛṣṭi called para. The soul is now completely free from all attachment to the world. It now achieves ecstasy (samadhi), the consummation of dhyana. The activities of the soul in this stage are free from all transgressions of the vows, and as such are pure and perfect. The soul now dissociates itself from all the acquired virtues and has its purpose fulfilled.' This occurs in the ninth stage of spiritual development. The soul then gradually attains omniscience on the annihilation of all the obscuring karmans. Now the final emancipation is attained by means of the last yoga known as ayoga.2
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Haribhadra distinguishes four types of yogins viz. gotrayogin, kulayogin, pravṛttacakrayogin, and nispannayogin. The yogins of the first type are not capable of emancipation. The yogins of the fourth type have already achieved their objective and so do not need any instruction in yoga. It is only the yogins of the second and the third type that need instruction."
1 Ibid., 179.
2 Ibid., 184. supra, pp. 279-280.
3 Ibid., 206-7 with Svopajñavṛtti. ibid., 208-210.
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Here ayoga refers to ayogakevali-gunasthana for which vide About the definitions of these types see
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