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Chapter 9: Pupil's Third Doubt regarding the Soul being Kartä
128 passions, and Yog denotes invigilant indulgence of physical, verbal, and mental faculties. Of these five, Mithyatva is the most significant, followed by Kashäy.
The pupil has not gone that deep regarding the philosophy of Karma. It is, however, clear to him that either the soul might be acquiring bondage of Karma or it might not. If it acquires, the pupil wonders how it would be acquiring that bondage. Several alternatives occur to him in this respect. Would Karma be clinging on its own? Or could it be within the nature of the soul to acquire Karma? Or would God or Nature be prompting it to do so? He presents these alternatives (doubts) in the following stanzas.
કર્તા જીવ ન કર્મનો, કર્મ જ કર્તા કર્મ; અથવા સહજ સ્વભાવ કાં, કર્મ જીવનો ધર્મ.
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Karta Jiv Na Karmano, Karma Ja Kartä Karma; Athavä Sahaj Swabhäv Kän, Karma Jivano Dharma.
The Soul cannot be Kartä of Karma, Karma itself might be prompting the Karma; alternately, it might be the soul's innate nature or it may be its property to acquire Karma.
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