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Letter 25 As soon as one understands and realises this, one's attention is withdrawn from all the other Para Dravyas and is concentrated in his own self i.e. Swa Dravya. Dravya itself is comprised of both steadfast as well as evolution and extinction part.
Once one understands and realises the two aspects i.e. Dravyansh and Paryayansh; or Dhruva Ansh is that which remains the same and steadfast at all the times and Paryayansh which keeps on changing at each samay then one realises that I am that Dhruva Ansh i.e. Dravyansh i.e. Swabhava which does not change at all, it is constantly the same and remains as it is. One has to concentrate on this 'me' or Jeev Tattva and get immersed into it.
That means one has to believe that he is not the Paryay Tattva and he has to leave aside that part in his own cognisance; in other words he has to ignore it and he has to immerse and be steady only in his Jeev Tattva.
This means that Jeev Tattva is Upadeya or Param Upadeya i.e. ultimate Upadeya where one has to take resort. That is why Jinendra Bhagwan described Paryay Tattvas separately and named them as Asrava, Bandha, Samvar, Nirjara and Moksha. And unless one totally stops paying attention to all the Paryay Tattvas one can not concentrate and immerse in the Jeev Tattva.
First and foremost, one has to understand that my nature and characteristics and those of these other Tattvas are different and separate and that is the reason why I am different from them. And I i.e. Jeev Tattva is the supreme amongst all the Tattvas. And unless this supremacy of Jeev Tattva dawns upon oneself, one's interest and concentration or focus of attention will not divert towards one's own self.
As long as a person considers Samyak Darshan or Samvar, Nirjara and Moksha to be very precious and important in themselves and does not consider Jeev Tattva to be most important; his concentration and activity will never totally be diverted towards himself i.e. the Jeev Tattva. And until and unless one is totally concentrating and immersing in one's own self he will not attain Samyak Darshan.
That is by just thinking about the state of Samyak Darshan, one will never be able to achieve it. Because our attention is always diverted towards the thing which we consider most precious or important. Therefore when one diverts attention from Samyak Darshan which is a Paryay i.e. modification and concentrates on one's own self, then alone he will attain Samyak Darshan.
