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Letter 25
be left aside or get rid of. Samvar and Nirjara are Shuddha Bhava i.e. Veelarag Bhava. Asrava and Bandha are Ashuddha Bhava i.e. Raag Bhava. If somebody wishes to retain or have Ashuddha Bhava and still wishes to manifest Shuddha Bhava then it is a fallacious belief or Mithyatva.
Apart from Jain Dharma or Jain Darshan all the other religions preach that Punya is good and worth practising and Ashubha Bhava is to be rejected or to get rid of. Only Jainism says that both Shubha and Ashubha Bhava are to be renounced and only Shuddha Bhava is worthy of manifestation, and it is our prime duty to manifest Shuddha Bhava.
While studying and trying to acquire proper or Right Belief, it is imperative to have the basic right belief that Shubha Bhava is also worth getting rid of. The belief that Shubha Bhava is good and pious is so deeply rooted in our minds that by some reasoning or other we try to retain the belief that Shubha is proper.
'Before attaining Shuddha Bhava one must have Shubha Bhava 'is the normal belief of many people and while saying so more weightage is put on the words 'must have'. And thus place more importance on Shubha Bhava which is Asrava and thereby consider it to be Upadeya or worthy of taking resort in, rather than considering it as, Heya or worth getting rid of or worth abandoning. And this way they strengthen their fallacious beliefs about Tattvas and thereby acquire more Mithyatva.
Until and unless Shuddha Bhava is not manifested i.e. till one attains Samyak Darshan Jeev is continuously having the manifestations of Shubha Bhava followed by Ashubha Bhava and vice versa. And this is a continuous nonstop process. The maximum period of time for which Jeev remains in either Shubha Bhava or Ashubha Bhava is one Antar Muhurta ( stage).
I will explain to you the meaning of Antar Muhurta. A period smaller than Muhurta is Antar Muhurta. Muhurta is 48 minutes. And we already know the time span of Samay. It is the smallest unit of time. Such innumerable Samayas make one Aavali racit and hundreds of Aavalis make one second. Antar Muhurta is the time between more than an Aavali and less than 48 minutes. And all the possibilities between these two are also called Antar Muhurta.
The cycle of extinction of Ashubha Bhava and evolution of Shubha Bhava and vice versa goes on and on. These Bhavas keep on switching from one to the other lasting for not more than one Antar Muhurta and one doesn't have to do any efforts for bringing them.
