Tattvārtha Sūtra

Chapter 10

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1 Omniscience (perfect knowledge) is attained on the destruction of deluding karmas, and on the destruction of knowledge- and perception-covering karmas and obstructive karmas.

2 Owing to the absence of the cause of bondage and with the functioning of the dissociation of karmas, the annihilation of all karmas is liberation.

3 (Emancipation is attained) on the destruction of psychic factors also like quietism and potentiality.

4 Other than infinite faith, infinite knowledge, infinite perception, and infinite perfection.

5 Immediately after that the soul darts up to the end of the universe.

6 As the soul is previously impelled, as it is free from ties or attachment, as the bondage has been snapped, and as it is of the nature of darting upwards.

7 Like the potter’s wheel, the gourd devoid of mud, the shell of the castor-seed, and the flame of the candle.

8 As there is no medium of motion.

9 The emancipated souls can be differentiated with reference to the region, time, state, sign, type of Arhat, conduct, self-enlightenment, enlightened by others, knowledge, stature, interval, number, and numerical comparison.

English of Acharya Umasvami's Tattvarthsutra, edited by Vijay K. Jain (Vijay K. Jain, 2011), 2011. The book's Non-Copyright notice. Acharya Umasvami's Tattvarthsutra, with Hindi and English translations, edited by Vijay K. Jain. Vikalp Printers, Dehradun, 2011. English from S. A. Jain, Reality (Vira Sasana Sangha, Calcutta, 1960). Version: Vijay K. Jain, Vikalp Printers, 2011, English only. Source

Tattvārtha Sūtra of Ācārya Umāsvāmī, Digambara recension, 10 chapters and 357 sūtras.

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