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( 25 ) step towards this end is the checking of the further influx of matter which ceaselessly flows into the constitution of the soul.
(6) The inflow of fresh matter being checked, the next step is to remove the bonds one by one. This is called Nirara. When all the bonds are broken as under, and the soul is freed from all its crippling relations with matter, it enjoys its natural freedom and bliss and omniscience.
(7) The seventh and the last Tattva is naturally the ideal of perfection. That is, freedom, immortality and bliss, which the soul attains to on freeing itself from all its bonds.
Such is the nature of the essential principles of Tattvas. To recapaitulate briefly, Jainism maintains that all living beings in the universe are conscious entities, possessed of fullness and perfection, and capable of manifesting them by self-exertion in the right direction. Their natural perfection, which includes immortality, omniscience, infinite energy and infinite bliss, is marred by the operation of their own Karma, that is of the different kinds of forces engendered in the soul in conjunction with matter by its own actions. Hence all that the soul has
