Why aim for moksha

This is a tough question to ask, since it feels like a default goal for any spiritual being.
When I started diving into Jainism, I didn't bother to dig deeper into this question, because I was engrossed in the sea of reasonings and logic, I had too many things to study and understand. For me understanding the path felt more urgent (because it is time and effort consuming, so better to atleast get started on it early) than figuring out the reason for it.
I also realised that i might figure it out on my journey, I anyways did not have any "worthy" motivation for any other goal, since I find money, power, and even wisdom as something unworthy since there can always be more, and there is no satiation for it.
But I got fascinated by the logical reasoning in jainism for all the chaos happening around us.
There seems to be a method to this madness, and that felt an interesting thing to unravel. The concept of Anekantwad, made me wanna study more and more domains and find parallels between Jainism, science, psychology and alternate philosophies.

So far my motivation to study was not to aim for moksha, but to genuinely understand stuff and it kinda made me feel guilty coz whoever was digging deep into those areas were seemingly having the goal for moksha. I felt like an outsider, an imposter trying to spy my way into the depths of jainism. In hindsight, I also realised that if Moksha is indeed a worthy goal then my current research and practice will enable me towards moksha irrespective of whether I aim for it or not. Because I was agreeing to the methods of saadhna without looking at it as the stepping stone for moksha. All the tyaag, ras parityaag, dopamine detox, less fear, greed, attachment, etc. Everything kinda makes sense psycho-logically and bio-logically without it being tagged as moksha-logical!

I am still not very impatient to find reasons to set moksha as a goal, but every now and then when I read somewhere or this surface during conversations, I did stumble on some reasons for it. And I have some observations.

• Often times, Moksha as a goal is a taught goal, a passed on, hinted goal, not a derived or concluded goal via self analysis.
  • The reason I feel so, is coz if it really was self analysed, people would be hell bound for it, and doing every possible thing to go for it, Apramatta Sadhus probably have it.
• When a goal which is "very difficult" to achieve is set even faintly in the mind, we get so involved in getting there, we get so absorbed in the complexity of navigating the initial steps, that we take the goal for granted. We fail to think about "Why" of the goal.
• When I set out to seek the answer, by bluntly asking the why, I got a few set of reasons, some felt weak some had valid points at surface level, but I could think of the counter points too and would like to expand on it down the line
  So I will compile it all in one place.

1. To avoid hurt

Logic

Every birth and death is explained in detail around how painful it is. Hence it is better to avoid it all.
The logic when explained with the scary details can be very convincing.

Flaw

Even if we believe on the details, why would it matter if we do not remember it?
A constipated situation or acute tooth ache, a cut, the moment just before vomiting, it all can be debilitating, scary and super painful in the moment, but we have survived it a lot of times! And even if it is bad and scary and something that we would never want to happen, they still happen and if we zoom out of that momentary bad feeling stage, then it feels just like a part of life.
Then if we are fine with momentary pain like those, then what's wrong with the pain of birth and death, if we zoom out in terms of multiple lives? It is just on a grander magnitude of pain and time!

Conclusion

There has got to be a better reason and motivation for such a grand journey to attain moksha.
Fear for pain, doesn't feel strong enough reason to embark on a multi life time journey of strong vigilance and dedicated efforts!

2. To exit the loop, coz it is never ending

Logic

When we zoom out, we can see how worthless the loop is, it feels redundant to go over and over and over the same thing! It is like playing Mario which might have different levels and there can be many variations of the mario game, but how long would you want to play it! If you zoom out, it feels like a waste of time and energy!

Flaw

A loop is evident, only if you can zoom out, irl we cannot zoom out beyond our memory (unless you have Manah paryav gyaan), so first of all loop is not evident.
If loop is not evident then ho can you claim the worthlessness of it. A zoomed in player absorbed in a levekl in mario, is indeed absorbed, for them, passing the level is worth it!
So worthiness is a relative concept in terms of zoom range and since we cannot zoom out, we cannot call it worthless!
Also if being bored navigating through the loop is considered as a pain then what do you think will happen in moksha? You will forever be stuck in inactivity!
If your goal for moksha is out of boredom of the loop, then you are aiming for failure coz moksha is ultimate inactivity place! Might as well stick to the loop of interesting worldly games!

Conclusion

Dumb shallow reasoning like these cannot act as the rocket fuel for this difficult journey.

3. Curbing uncertainty

Logic

If uncertainty causes discomfort, then the loop of world can be considered uncomfortable, since we are hugely affected by the kashay and karma uday that we do stuff that we do not intend to, we repent it and yet do it all again. SO if lack of control is your pain, then truly emancipating yourself would mean shedding all karmas. And that might be a good reason for attaining moksha.
This line of thought takes inspiration from the concept of Granthi Bhed. Observe your soul's true nature and then compare with your paryay's state, you will feel the need to "fix" the discrepancies. It is only natural to think about it to aim for it! This line of thinking

Flaw

Fear or disgust towards uncertainity is certainly not a swabhav of aatma, then why be engrossed in it?

Conclusion

It still feels impure, coz the craving for freedom is still a craving.

Conclusion

There is probably a very subtle reason for not having moksha as a goal? People who had moksha as goal, never achieved it, Buddha's example is often stated. When he let go of the desire for moksha, then he achieved it.

Maybe don't aim for it? Aiming for something requires raag. The question itself is an oxymoron!

Maybe it is just about trying to stay in swabhaav of soul, this leads to karma failing to influence us, less karma bondage for future and shedding of karma as well, moksha is inevitable consequence of being in your own swabhaav.