Moksha Marg Prakashak

SR No.: 006760
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Todarmal Pandit
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 556
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
Meaning: Vyavahara is abhootartha (unreal), it does not state the true nature (of the substance), rather states contrarily from some empirical point of view. And the Shuddha Naya (pure stand point) which is true (Nishchaya), it is Bhootartha (real), it states the nature of substance as it is. In this way, the nature of these two Nayas is contradictory to each other.
Further, you believe that the realisation of pure self-soul like Siddha (liberated soul) is Nishchaya and the conduct of the form of vows, chastity, continence, etc. is Vyavahara; so, your such belief is not correct, because it is not that the name of some particular quality or mode of a substance is Nishchaya and name of some other quality or mode is Vyavahara. Describing a mode or quality of a particular substance to be of the same substance only is Nishchaya Naya (real standpoint) and describing conventionally the mode or quality of that particular substance to be the mode or quality of some other substance is Vyavahara. For example, describing a clay pot to be the pot of clay is Nishchaya and calling the same clay pot conventionally to be the pot of Ghee (clarified butter) because it contains Ghee, is Vyavahara. Similarly, one should know everywhere also.
Therefore, your believing something to be Nishchaya and something to be Vyavahara is a fallacy. Moreover, in your such belief also their lies contradiction between Nishchaya and Vyavahara. If you believe yourself to be pure (Shuddha, i.e., devoid of blemishes) like Siddha (liberated soul) then why do you observe vows, etc.? If you want to attain Siddhahood by observing vows, etc. then in the present state your realisation of pure soul is proved false. In this way, there lies contradiction between the two Nayas. Therefore, believing both the Nayas as adoptable, is not correct.
Here lies a question that in Samayasara, etc., the realisation of pure soul is stated to be Nishchaya and observance of vows, continence, etc. is stated to be Vyavahara, we too believe in the same way?
Answer: Realisation of the pure self-soul is the true path of liberation, that is why it is stated to be Nishchaya. Here the meaning of word Shuddha (pure) be understood as “inseparate from the intrinsic nature of the self and separate from all non-self substances (including their qualities and modifications)". But believing the