With the attainment of this samādhi, avidyā and the other kleśas are eradicated together with their roots, and both wholesome and unwholesome karmāśaya are destroyed at the root. With the cessation of kleśa and karma, the knower is liberated while still alive. Misconception is held to be the cause of becoming; the Bhāṣya assumes no further birth for one in whom it has dwindled.
Freed from all coverings caused by kleśa and karma, knowledge becomes infinite according to the Bhāṣya, not merely almost unlimited. The jñāna-sattva, previously veiled by tamas and opened only here and there by rajas, is then free of every covering and defilement. Compared with this infinity, what remains knowable is as small as a firefly in the sky.
With the arising of dharmamegha, the sequence of transformations of the guṇas whose purpose for this puruṣa has been fulfilled comes to an end. Having completed bhoga and apavarga and concluded their sequence, they cannot, according to the Bhāṣya, persist in this activity for even a moment.
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