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So the state of break-through . . .
The devoted pursuit of the three gems, happens only after the awakening of the moksa bhava.
From infinite time, the jiva has been lying in the state of bondage. All the transformations of the jiva until now, were on account of the bondage. The affected transformations have at some places led the jiva to good karmas while at others they have led to evil karmas. This state of bondage is the state of ignorance, it is the state of karma.
Both the good and evil karmas have been called karma bhava and karma bhava has been called ignorance. That is to say that evil bhava is ignorance and good bhava is ignorance too. Why so? A Mithyatvi jiva binds both papa and punya karma. It is not as if being a Mithyatvi, it binds only papa karma. Even such a jiva has a tapering off of kashayas. The shubha yogas of mindspeech and body prevail, so there is punya bandha. And even after attaining samyaktva, the jiva continues to bind both papa and punya through good and evil thoughts. When the punya bhava and papa bhava of both types of jivas is termed as ignorance, then what is the difference between the two? Both have been called ignorant.
But no, it is not so! First of all let us be clear that the bondage of punya and papa has not been termed as ignorance. The thoughts have been called ignorance. That is to say, the interest in karmabhava, the affection therein has been called ignorance. A Mithyatvi jiva does have an interest in karmabhava, an attachment towards it and therefore that bhava of its is in the form of ignorance. But a samakit jiva's mati jnana and shruta jnana have transcended the stage of ignorance and have now come into the form of knowledge. As a result its vision of the true form of the self is clear. The attachment towards the karma bhava is severed due to a firm belief within, that the self is the
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