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the qualities of friends and foes, pleasure and pain, praise and censure, life and death, sand and gold, attachment and aversion. Since he is the embodiment of spiritual virtues, he leads a life of supermoralism but not of a-moralism. Thus we may conclude by saying that the cognitive, conative and affective tendencies of the perfected mystic reveal their original manifestation in supreme mystical experience, which is incffable and transcends all the similies of the world.
After this, disembodied liberation results (Videha Mukti). The self now earns the title of Siddha'.
Professor and Head Department of Philosophy Sukhadia University
Udaipur (Rajasthan)
Jain Education International
One should pursue the spiritual path, as long as old age does not afflict, disease does not grow and the senses do not decline.
(Samanasuttan, 295)
Just as a needle with thread, even if fallen in the heap of stram, is not lost, so also the Jeva with moral and speritual observances, even if also orhed in the world, does not ruin.
(Samanasultan, 248)
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