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CHAPTER TEN
The other Causes of Mokṣa :
Mokṣa takes place when there comes about an absence of the characteristic conditions-of-a-soul aupaśamika etc. as also of the condition bhavyatva-but not of the conditions kṣāyikasamyaktva, kṣāyika-jñāna, kṣāyika-darśana and siddhatva. 4.
Just like an utter annihilation of the karmas of the form of physical particles it is also necessary that on the eve of mokṣa there should come about an absence of certain characteristic conditions of a soul that are dependent on these karmas. It is an annihilation of these conditions that is here being described as a cause of mokṣa. Such conditions are chiefly of four types in all, viz.-aupaśamika, kṣāyopaśamika, audayika, pāriṇāmika. Of these, each and every condition of the first three types viz.-aupaśamika etc.-is annihilated absolutely. But there is no such absoluteness about the type pāriņāmika. For from among the conditions of the pārināmika type bhavyatva alone-and no other condition-is annihilated. The reason is that the other conditions of the pārināmika type-e.g. jivatva or soulness, astitva or existent-nessremain there even in the state of mokṣa. As for the conditions of the kṣāyika type, though they too are dependent on karmas their absence does not come about in the state of mokṣa. It is in order to indicate this that the aphorism mentions as the cause of mokṣa an annihilation of all the conditions of a soul barring the conditions kṣāyika samyaktva etc. And though the aphorism makes no mention of the conditions kṣāyika vīrya, kṣāyika cāritra, kṣāyika sukha etc.-this unlike its mention of the conditions kṣāyika samyaktva etc.-these former conditions can be taken to be comprehended under the one condition siddhatva-so that an absence of these conditions too can be said to have been denied of mokṣa. 4.
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As soon as all its karmas are annihilated the Jiva goes upwards upto the end of the loka. 5.
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