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TIRTHANKARA MAHAVIRA AND HIS SARVODAYA TIRTHA
To have it, one must come to niscaya naya
Vyavahāra naya is not only useful in helping others to understand; it is useful for one's own understanding as well till one acquires the competence to use niscaya naya. Vyavahāra is just a key to understand the fundamental, but to take it as truth is a misnomer. 152
Niscaya naya can be used only at the quest or establishment of truth about the pure soul, not in the preliminary stage. Compare,
taccānesanakāle samayam bujjhehi juttimaggeņā no āhāraṇasamaye paccakkho anuhavo jahmtāl53
Only at the time of enquiry, the soul may be known with the help of logic or niscaya naya, but beyond that there is no alternative, for at that stage, the soul is visible itself
In a sense, all nayas are unwholesome because the true nature of things is beyond their respective points.
kammam baddhamabaddnam jāve evam tu jāna nayapakkham pakkhātıkkanto puna bhannadı jo so samayasāro154
According to the vyavahāra naya, the soul is bound by karma, but according to niscaya naya, it is free, so both the nayas have a point each; anything beyond these is samayasāra.
The commentary on this states that any one who is free from the points made by the nayas is really free from alternatives, and be alone can have a feel of samayasāra.
It is to be carefully noted that what is to be discarded is the point made by the nayas, but not surely the intrinsic matter of niscaya naya. In the case of vyavahāra naya, both have to be discarded, not only the point but also the content.
152 Mok samārga Prakasaka, p. 253. 153 Nayacakra, Gatha, 268. 154 Samayasāra, Gatha, 142.
