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I am the Soul
557 Only if a greater ease, than the ease with which the state of attachment or aversion comes to us, appears in attaining a state free from attachment and aversion, can the end of the path of bondage be seen. The tradition of attachment etc. has been continuing from infinite time. The atma has not yet awakened the strength to break through it. When it awakens, there will be a decline in attachment etc. Otherwise attachment etc. are quite strong. They will not allow the strength of the soul to awaken at all. Hence, the jiva has to awaken the strength of the soul with an effort.
The first state in this process is the samakit. Only when the jiva stops the asrava of mithyatva, the sanvar of samakit is born and one link of the infinite tradition is broken in between. Jiva has made efforts to control anger etc. but has not succeeded in them, will not succeed. First of all there have to be efforts to remove mithyatva. When mithyatva is removed, the anantanubandhi kashayas (binding from infinite time) are bound to go away. The remaining apratyakhyani, pratyakhyani and sanjwalan kashayas then can hardly exert their strength. They will certainly make their presence felt, try to create hurdles, but the jiva by now has a key with it, that is purushartha - a supreme effort, with the help of which it will progress. The atma would have garnered strength enough to put up a fight against the kashayas. The jiva might sometimes lose the fight, but will rise again and face with courage and eventually the kashayas will have to concede defeat. Freedom is truly achieved when they are removed. Once mithyatva is trounced and despatched, the natural state to do all this awakens in the atma.
Just as the state of attachment etc. is seen to appear naturally in the atma which is the affected disposition, so too when the jiva begins to come into the natural disposition, the moksadasha appears naturally.
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