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on top of it should be venerable! Not just that, only such elevated jivas are authorised to take ahar - food - from the shravaks, none others! You pity such jivas carrying these beliefs. What childishness! What should be the state of the poor childish jivas? Should this be called Dharma? Is this Charitra?
Why! Many jivas who while speaking of Niscaya Naya have picked up some devotion, they proclaim some terms which they have held on to and consider themselves elevated and others as inferior. They claim that the true Dharma is only with them, and all others are wrong. They spread the idea that only they have the contract of true Dharma. Tell me! Where is the Dharma here in the fifth kala? Those jivas who call themselves Samkiti - equitable - live in the fear of losing their samakit - the equanimity - by merely saluting others with folded hands. Where should you categorise such people whose equanimity is so fickle?
Those who do this are misguided. They haven't been able to subjugate their attachment-aversion. They can call themselves great only by comparing themselves with others. But there is not enough ‘self appearing in them which can prove their greatness without resorting to anything else. Brothers! Those jivas who have got immersed in their activity with knowledge and understanding are like the flower of ‘kevada - it may be lying in a corner, but the fragrance spreads everywhere. Their subjugated affected disposition and the state of meeting the true disposition of the self indicates their greatness.
Hence, only if the activity is directed to the goal of Niscaya Naya with the understanding of the Syadvada principle propounded by the Sarvajna, and if that activity is helping in a steady progress of the state of the Soul in him, only then he is right, otherwise wrong. Not only wrong, but one pursuing such Vyavahar can neither perform pure activity nor can reach the Niscaya. Hence, in Uttaradhyayan Sutra it is said -
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