4. TWENTY-PADAS THE ELEMENTS OF VIMSATISTHANAKA ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO ATTAIN TIRTHAMKARA NAMAKARMA-PADA

4. TWENTY-PADAS THE ELEMENTS OF VIMSATISTHANAKA ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO ATTAIN TIRTHAMKARA NAMAKARMA-PADA

Jains believe in soul, salvation, the other world, good deeds, sins, action and religion. They admit that good deeds lead to happiness and sins to misery. So every soul should store Punya by performing good deeds. Those who desire to become supreme-being Paramatma should devote themselves to scared deeds and devotional worship of Vimsati-sthanaka. A would be Thirthamkara attain sufficient Punya to be Paramatma by worshipping some of these twenty elements less of more with deep devotion in the third birth prior to his last birth. Assuredly a soul cannot become a Tirthamikara without this worship.

These elements-padas are
(1) Arihanta Pada
(2) Siddha Pada
(3) Pravacana Pada
(4) Acarya Pada
(5) Sthavira Pada
(6) Upadhyaya Pada
(7) Sadhu Pada
(8) Jnana Pada
(9) Darsana Pada
(10) Vinaya Pada
(11) Carita Pada
(12) Brahmacarya Pada
(13) Kriya Pada
(14)Tapa Pada
(15) Goyama Pada
(16) Jina Pada
(17) Samyama Pada
(18) Abhinava Jnana Pada
(19) Sruta Pada
(20) Tirtha Pada.

There is a difference of opinion about the names and order of the Padas. Diagrams of these Padas are made in different ways. Particular diagrams are not easy and possible.