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I am the Soul
within our means to alter the conduct of any one jiva. Hence, they simply observe with an impartial feeling, each jiva as and how it behaves. But there is a reason why the behaviour of a Matarthi Jiva has been told.
In the Agamas too, there appears a description of both types of jivas. While telling us about those jivas who attained Moksa with a devoted practice, severe penance and through meditation, they also tell us about the Viradhaka - fa- the wrong-doing jivas who wind up wandering in the world. If in the treatises, there is the story of Samaraditya Kevali, there also is the story of Agnisharma who added infinite lives. If Bhagawan Parshwanatha has been eulogised, then the arrogance of Kamatha is also recorded.
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The intention with which this has been told is to get a jiva to examine his own feelings and if they are on the wrong path, to consider their damaging results and turn towards the path of devoted practice. Abandon the sinful ways, and adopt the virtuous path. The learned do not intend to condemn the misled jivas by describing them. They are only trying to draw your attention to the facts.
Here Srimadji is doing us a favour by trying to tell us about the qualities of a Matarthi impartially. In the following few gathas, every single internal and external feeling of a Matarthi is described. Let us all know them and compare them with our own thought process, and make a sincere effort to discard the feelings worth discarding.
So now we move on to the qualities of the Matarthi!
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