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I am the Soul
455 2. According to Vyavahara naya, atma is maker of things like villages, cities, pots and pans etc. Practically all the things that are made, we have seen them being made by somebody. Indeed, the usage is always that this pot was made by the potter'. “This house was built by the mason’. 'I did this work”. Thus formally, this is the practice. If we look at the truth, the paramanus from which a thing was made, those paramanus had the ability to transit into that form, and the person was merely instrumental in transforming them. Just as the pot was made from clay. Clay had the ability to become a pot, and the potter became instrumental. Yet in practice, it is said that the potter made the pot. So according to vyavahara naya atma is the maker of things.
3. As per the impure niscaya naya, atma is the doer of chetan karmas. Actually karmas are inanimate. But instigated by inanimate karmas, the feelings of attachment and aversion arise in the atma, atma generates those feelings. Therefore attachment etc. have been termed as chetan karmas. These karmas are not the true natural disposition of the jiva, but passions of the jiva. Therefore, as per imperfect niscaya naya atma is the doer of attachment etc.
4. As per pure niscaya naya, atma is doer of infinite knowledge etc. that are the true original form. Infinite knowledge is the characteristic of atma. There are transformations in the characteristic. Jiva does those transformations of the knowledge and hence as per perfect niscaya naya it is the doer of knowledge etc.
5. Under the ultimate pure niscaya naya, atma is a nondoer. Atma in its natural true form is unbreakable and sans emotions. That, natural disposition exists, is an all-time truth. It does not have to be made. The coolness that exists in water is always there. Water does not have to do anything for that coolness. Similarly the natural disposition in the atma which is there eternally is the ultimate transforming feeling and the atma
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