Agam 08 Ang 08 Antkrutdashang Sutra Sthanakvasi

Author(s): Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana, Rajkumar Jain, Purushottamsingh Sardar
Publisher: Padma Prakashan

Page 512

All the Vaasudevs make nidans inspired by animosity.
In scriptures there are numerous examples of such aversion-nidans. One such example is-Yadav princes thrashed hermit Dvaipayan almost to death. He then made a nidan to destroy Dvarka. When he reincarnated as Agnikumar god he burnt the grand city of Dvarka to ashes.
RELEVANT FACTS
It is essential to be an observer of austerities in order to make a nidan, it does not matter if these are done even out of ignorance. This is because it is through austerities that one acquires the power that fulfills a wish.
In the Chitta-sambhutiya chapter of Uttaradhyayan Sutra, Sambhut Muni makes a nidan of enjoying the power and pleasures due to a Chakravarti. Because of his harsh austerities he reincarnates as Brahmadatt Chakravarti.
Ordinarily, one who makes a nidan of human pleasures reincarnates as a hell being after he enjoys the desired pleasures; as Brahmadatt Chakravarti did.
However, in case of Draupadi, who married five Pandavas as the fruition of her nidan of earlier birth, at the time of her svayamvar (formal ceremony of bride-groom selection) an air-borne Shraman related the story of her past birth and she was disillusioned. She atoned for the nidan and in the end got liberated.
Nidan is a firm volition. It is to seek fulfillment of desire in exchange of one's austerities.
Generally every person desires of his progress, prosperity, position, status etc. He plans for it and does efforts in the right direction. He applies all his wisdom, ability, intelligence etc. and if luck also favours attains his ambitions. But this is not nidan. Because nidan is to sell austerities. Here the situation is different. Here it is only ambition.
Nidan, in one way, is to confine oneself within certain limits. For example the being who makes a nidan to become shramanopasak cannot become an ascetic. One who makes a nidan to become an ascetic cannot get liberated.
Conveying this meaning it is mentioned on page 2094 of Abhidhan Rajendra Kosh "As a creeper is cut by an axe, likewise the desires of divine or mundane pleasures cuts the creeper of ultimate bliss and liberation in the form of three gems (Ratnatraya). Conclusion
In brief the conclusion is that any nidan, inspired by desires of pleasure or aversion, is worth rejecting and despicable. Even a nidan inspired by fondness for religion is wrong and is an impediment to purification and liberation of soul.
Therefore it is good not to make any nidan.
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