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flow and bondage of Karma. He does not understand the necessity of performing vows and pratyakhyana and gives it up altogether.
If the jiva absorbs Niscaya Naya in theory - only in words, but considers the dravya-charitra of vrata - paratyakhyana etc. which have been indicated as the means to attaining the true form of the Atma by Niscaya Naya, as rejectable, then that jiva loses everything and falls into the one-way track of sin.
Niscaya Naya also says that the ultimate aim of the jiva is Moksa. To attain Moksa, the total elimination of all Karma is expected. So in the process, some who do not properly understand Niscaya Naya , and presume that sin as well as virtue is heya and hence to be avoided, lose out on the Punya that is generated with good thoughts. But they too have not unravelled the mystery of what Niscaya Naya has to say.
When and where is Punya to be given up has not been understood. The effort towards the elevation of the Atma is but an effort to eliminate sins. If we look at the progressive steps of the gunasthanas, then a jiva progresses only with the subjugation, subjugation and reduction or elimination of Mohaniya Karma. Mohaniya is indeed in the form of sin, but whatever else the jiva goes on eliminating through Nirjara is also in the form of sin. Therefore, the jiva has to make the effort for the Atma, for the Nirjara of sin - papa alone. He does not have to bother to check whether the Nirjara of Punya is happening or not. When the jiva reaches the ninth gunasthana, the Punya formation stops by itself in the bandha. This work will be complete effortlessly when that stage is reached, but thinking that Punya is also rejectable, if the good deeds that lead to Punya are also given up then what is left for the jiva?
Think, Brothers! Examine the activities of your yogas through day and night! All the activities would be accompanied with the thoughts of one sin or the other out of the eighteen.
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