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Niyamasara
नियमसार
The ascetic (śramaņa) who fails to adopt the transcendental-point-ofview (niscayanaya) that views substances (dravya) in their pure state, and accepts only the empirical-point-of-view (vyavahāranaya) is deluded (mohi). As a result of delusion, he entertains dispositions of 'sense-of-mine' (mamakāra) and ‘self-consciousness' (ahamkāra) towards external objects. In such a state of delusion he takes up the wrong path, giving up his status of the true ascetic (śramaņa). The adoption of the impure-point-of-view (aśuddhanaya) must result in the adoption of the impure-state-of-the-soul (aśuddhātmā). Only the soul established in the right path as expounded by Lord Jina observes repentance (pratikramaņa) continuously; the soul established in the opposite path does not observe repentance.
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