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Liberation or final deliverance is achieved in the absence of the subsidential modes and worldliness and in the presence of destructional (permanent) - righteousness, knowledge, vision and worldliness. (4)
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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA : FINAL DELIVERANCE : 163
Aupaśamikädibhavyatvābhāvāccanyatra kevalasamyaktvajñānadarśanasiddhatvebhyaḥ || 4 ||
After Liberation -
Tadanantaramūrdhvam gacchatya lokāntāt || 5 ||
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Thereafter (on achieving final deliverance) the liberated soul goes upwards up to the end (top) of the universe. (5)
Pūrvaprayogādasangatvādbandhaccedattathāgatiparināmāccatadgatih || 6 |||
The reasons for the liberated soul's upwards motion to the end (top) of the universe are 1. Due to the counter motion imparted to it by the reaction of the material karma matter that separates from it and moves downwards (Pūrvaprayoga), 2. Due to detachment of the karma matter particles which are heavy and bear the soul down as long as they remain attached to it, 3. Due to release from bondage just as a helium filled baloon rises after the line holding it is cut and, 4. Finally, due to its natural tendency to rise. It, however, rises only up to the end (top) of the universe and not beyond because the medium of motion (Dharmāstikāya) exists only up to the end of the universal space (Lokākāśa) and nothing, not even liberated souls, can move beyond into the non-universal space. (6)
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