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I am the Soul
599
Sankhyas, the atma were to be considered untouched, then whose sansar would this be? Moksa is there because there is sansar. If atma did not have a sansar, then moksa would not be possible. If, like the Naiyayikas, we believe the atma to be fixed eternally, then it cannot transform into various lives. If it is a human today, it will always remain human, if it is pure now, it will always remain pure. Even then moksa would not be possible. A human cannot end up in the siddha state, likewise, what is already pure does not need to be purified further. So what should be the means for moksa?
If the atma is considered to be doing nothing - akarta, and to be suffering nothing - abhokta, then it will not have any bondage of karma. If there is no karma, there is no sansar, and if there is no sansar, there can be no moksa. As a result, the state of moksa cannot be achieved.
Moksa exists' : If this statement is not accepted and the very existence of moksa is denied, then jiva will continue to bind karma and suffer karma. If we presume that such a cycle goes on an on, even then the state of moksa cannot be achieved.
The last statement : “the means to moksa'. If it is assumed that there are no means, even then moksa becomes unattainable.
But if we adopt the syadvada method and accept all the statements, then considering according to the Jain philosophy, we can accept the existence of atma and treat it as sometimes eternal and sometimes momentary. Even if atma is not a karta and bhokta according to niscaya naya, it is a karta and bhokta according to vyavahara naya. Only then can there be any value to the effort of liberating the atma and liberation - moksa. Just as atma is bound, it can also be liberated. That is its moksa. And there is a path to attain that moksa.
Thus, by linking all the six statements with the formula of syadvada in our belief, the path to moksa becomes clear. That is
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