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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
As soon as all the karmas and the conditions aupaśamika etc. dependent on them are annihilated the following three things simultaneously take place within one and the same samaya. Separation from the body, motion signifying the process of being emancipated, the reading upto the end of the loka. 5.
The Causes of the Motion that Signifies the Process of Being Emancipated :
On account of the impulse imparted earlier, on account of the absence of an associated body, on account of the breaking down of a bondage, on account of that being its natural state of motion an emancipated jīva goes upwards. 6.
As soon as a jīva is released from karma it undertakes a motion and does not remain static. As for this motion it is directed upwards and it proceeds upto the very end of the lokanot upto a point below it. Such is the position maintained in scriptural texts. Now here arise several questions. Without the help of the physical substances like karmas or a body how does an amūrta jīva undertake motion ? And if it does undertake motion why only upwards and not downwards or sideways ? These questions have been answered here.
The substance jīva—just like the substance pudgala—is mobile by nature. The two differ only in that a pudgala is such as by nature moves downwards while a jīva such as by nature moves upwards. If a jīva happens to undertake no motion at all or if it happens to move downwards or sideways then it has to be understood that it does so owing to an association or bondage with some obstructing body. Such an obstructing body is karma. So when the association with karma is done away with and the bondage with it is broken down then there inevitably arises the occasion for the emancipated jīva to undertake an upward motion
1. Two aphorisms numbered 7 and 8 following this one occur in the Digambara tradition. However, the meaning of both as als structure of their wording is already to be found in the Bhāsya to the present aphorism.
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