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The fourteenth rung · five short vowels long

Śaileśī

शैलेशी

After the samudghāta the yogas are stilled one by one, and the soul stands like a mountain - śaileśī, the state of Śaileśa, Meru - for exactly as long as it takes to say a, i, u, ṛ, ḷ.

This is the fourteenth guṇasthāna, omniscience without activity: no thought, no speech, no movement, not the finest. The fourth śukladhyāna. Its duration is given not in samayas but in sound: the time to utter five short vowels. In its penultimate samaya seventy-two karmas end, in its last thirteen, and with the last of them the soul is free.

The view draws the five vowels as five ticks, because that is the only clock the texts give for it.

One samaya, straight upTattvārthasūtra 10.5–7: the freed soul rises to the loka's end, without a turnit stops because the medium of motion stops, not because anything is in the wayaloka - space, and nothing elselokānta - the medium of motion endsthe siddhas: 333⅓ dhanuṣSiddhaśilāthe place of nirvāṇaone samaya, straight upŚAILEŚĪ · THE FOURTEENTH RUNGaiufive short vowels: the only clock the texts give itTHE FOUR LIKENESSES · TATTVĀRTHASŪTRA 10.7the potter's wheelpūrva-prayoga · the impulse already given keeps it turningthe gourd freed of its clayasaṅga · nothing clings, so it comes up through the waterthe castor seed from its podbandha-cheda · the bond cut, it springsthe flametathā-gati-pariṇāma · its nature is to go upTHE SIDDHA'S EXTENT - AVAGĀHANĀ: TWO-THIRDS OF THE LAST BODY, A REGION PERVADED, NOT A BODYṚṣabhanātha · 500 dhanuṣ → 333⅓ dhanuṣMahāvīra · 7 hāth → 4⅔ hāththe two bars are not to one scale; the descent chapter draws that ratio
One samaya, straight up - Śaileśī highlighted

Measurements and counts

Guṇasthāna14
Durationa · i · u · ṛ · ḷ
Dhyānathe fourth śukla
Karmas ending72, then 13

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10