MOKSHA...the Liberation.

Moksha. The perfection and purification of the soul. Determination, Maturity, Rules Restraints, Aasana, Pranaayam, Pratyahar and Penance. Ancient sages became Siddhas by above hard rituals. At one point They are no longer human. They are God Incarnate in Human Form. They did it by Meditation Samadhi Salvation and They thrive on their inner strength. Time is Limited, fixed for everyone, for everything. It is a wheel of 12 spokes- six ascending and six descending in life time. Fall at their feet and submit to them. The world is eternal. Its constituent elements, the six substances, are soul, matter, time, space, and the principles of motion and the arrest of motion. These are eternal and indestructible, but their conditions change constantly. The inhabited universe is divided into five parts. The lower world is subdivided into seven tiers, each one darker and more tortuous than the one above it. The middle world consists of numberless concentric continents separated by seas, the centre continent of which is called Jambudvipa, the only continent on which it is possible for the soul to achieve liberation. The celestial world consists of two categories of heaven, one for the souls of those who may or may not have entered the path and one for the souls of those who are far along on the path and are close to the time of their emancipation. At the apex of the occupied universe is the Siddhashila, the crescent-shaped abode of liberated souls. This can occur only when the soul is in a state of eternal liberation from and nonattachment to corporeal bodies. Liberation of the soul is impeded by the accumulation of karmans (see below Karman), bits of material, generated by a person's actions, that bind themselves to the soul and consequently bind the soul to material bodies through many births; this has the effect of thwarting the full self-realization and freedom of the soul. To understand how the Jainas perceive and address this problem, it is first necessary to explain the Jaina conception of reality. Time and the universal Time, according to the Jainas, is eternal and formless. It is conceived as a wheel with 12 spokes called aras ("ages"), six making an ascending arc and six a descending one. In the ascending arc (utsarpini), man progresses in knowledge, age, stature, and happiness, while in the descending arc (avasarpini) he deteriorates. The two cycles joined together make one rotation of the wheel of time, which is called a kalpa.The world is eternal and uncreated. Its constituent elements, the six substances (dravyas), are soul, matter, time, space, and the principles of motion and the arrest of motion. These are eternal and indestructible, but their conditions change constantly.Jainas divide the inhabited universe into five parts. The lower world (adholoka) is subdivided into seven tiers, each one darker and more tortuous than the one above it. The middle world (madhyaloka) consists of numberless concentric continents separated by seas, the centre continent of which is called Jambudvipa. Human beings occupy Jambudvipa, the second continent, and half of the third; the focus of Jaina activity, however, is Jambudvipa, the only continent on which it is possible for the soul to achieve liberation. The celestial world (urdhvaloka) consists of two categories of heaven: one for the souls of those who may or may not have entered the Jaina path and one for the souls of those who are far along on the path and are close to the time of their emancipation. At the apex of the occupied universe is the siddhashila, the crescent-shaped abode of liberated souls (siddhas). Finally, there are some areas inhabited solely by ekendriyas, organisms that have only a single sense. Although ekendriyas permeate all parts of the occupied universe, there are places where they are the only living beings.