GAWILGHUR AND MOOHKTAGHIRRX. 
Ill 
man becomes almost insensible to earthly concerns. 
He is said to be devoid of all human passions, and 
acknowledges none of the requirements of nature ; 
hunger and thirst are unknown to him ; abstruse 
contemplation is his only sleep ; heat and cold, 
disease and infirmity, alike fail to inflict pain or 
inconvenience ; and his eye rests with equal indif- 
ference upon good and evil. Being divested of all 
wants, he lives in absolute independence of his one- 
time fellow mortals, and estranges himself from all 
communion with them, having no thought, affection, 
or inclination, except for things divine. In this 
manner, he advances, step by step, in purity and 
excellence, during which time the principles or ele- 
ments of his natural body are gradually dissolved, 
until, having passed through eleven intermediate 
stages, he arrives at ultimate perfection, and becomes 
inseparably united with the Deity. 
It is not possible for any person among the Jhains 
to attain the high and sublime order of Saniasi 
Nirvani, at pleasure ; because he cannot be qualified 
with the necessary degree of purity, unless he has 
already passed through some millions of transmi- 
grations. 
