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I am the Soul
is mithyatva there will be anantanubandhi and vice versa. Both ripen at the same time and moreover they both support each other. That is why if samakit has to be attained one has to wage a war with them both. Only if the two are vanquished can samyaktva be attained.
Once samyaktva occurs, a jiva's attaining moksa is certain. If the samyaktva remains sustained, if the pure effects of the atma can turn from strong to stronger to strongest, then the jiva may even attain moksa in the same life. If not, at least after three births, or fifteen births or even later, moksa is bound to happen. Now there is no need to spend infinite time. Once the anantanubandhi, which inflicts infinite bondage, has been demolished, it cannot prevail in spite of its best effort and hence the jiva progresses on the path of moksa.
That is exactly what has been said in the gatha - ff जेहथी, ते ज मोक्षनो पंथ The path which leads to the freedom from attachment, aversion and ignorance is the path to moksa. Here the purushartha for attaining samyaktva is the path to moksa. Once the jiva does this effort and tastes samakit, it does not like to give up that taste. Per chance, if samakit is lost for a while, the jiva does not forget that taste, and it yearns for it and attains the samakit state. And that is how it progresses. That is the path to moksa.
Only when the knots of attachment and aversion begin to hurt that the jiva awakens to the desire of taking up such an effort. Brothers! When there is a knot of misunderstanding in the relation with somebody, that knot hurts for the whole life. The jiva feels that it would be best if it could be entangled. It even attempts to do so. So also, only when the knots of attachment and aversion begin to bother, hurt and hamper, can the jiva respect the effort to come out of the mithyatva state to attain samakit.
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