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ન્યાયકુસુમાંજલિ.
[ પથમthat it is desirable to have the Samsara never empty of living beings. Now this can be secured in two ways either by admitting that the liberated return to Samsara or by admitting that the number of living beings is infinite, that is to say, it is so big that in spite of the living beings leaving this world at every moment and attaining salvation, at no time the Samsara will be empty of them. The former alternative is inadmissible in as much as it destroys the importance-the greatness of Mukti and it is unreasonable to believe that the liberated will return to Samsara even when they have completely annihilated Karmans, and when they have accomplished every object-when there remains no work for them to perform. Thus it follows that it is against reasoning to admit the first alternative.
We shall now examine the second alternative. It is a fact that the number of human beings residing in this Samsara is falling off every moment as some of them go on attaining liberation by leaving it. But this is not a sufficient ground to believe that the Samsara will be hence empty of living beings. For, the Nigodas furnish the supply of souls in place of those who reach Nirvana. An infinitesimally small fraction of one single Nigoda is sufficient to replace the vacancy caused in this Samsara by the Nirvana of all those souls that have been liberated from the beginningless past down to the present. Moreover, the word "infinite is taken to mean a number which is infinite times the number of the Samayas
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