Pravachanasara

SR No.: 003289
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 612
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 16 MB

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Translation of
[II, 92
92. The soul, effecting the development of its consciousness, is the agent of its own development; it is not the agent of all those conditions constituted of material substances.1
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93. The soul, though standing in the midst of matter all the while, neither accepts nor abandons, nor is the agent of material Karmas.
94. The soul, at present (i.e., in this transmigratory condition), being the agent of its own modification constituted out of its own substance, is sometimes bound up with or released from Karmic dust.
95. When the soul, under the influence of attachment or aversion develops itself into auspicious or inauspicious resultant of consciousness, the Karmic dust pours into it in the form of knowledge-obscuring etc.
*4. The fruition of auspicious or inauspicious types (of Karmas) is intensified by pure and soiled attitudes (respectively); but in reverse to that, all the types have minimum intensity.
96. The soul, which has space-points, when soiled by infatuation, attachment and aversion, is clung by Karmic dust;2 and that is called bondage in the scripture.
97. The Arahantas have preached to the ascetics or saints this discourse in short on the bondage of the soul from the realistic standpoint of view; the same from the ordinary stand-point of view is something different.
98. He, who does not abandon the notion of mineness over the body and possessions that 'I am this and this is mine', gives up the sramanya (i.e., the status of a saint) and goes astray.
99. 'I do not belong to others, nor do others belong to me; I am mere knowledge': he, who meditates thus in concentration, comes to meditate on his (pure) self.
100. Thus I consider myself to be constituted of knowledge and faith, supersensuous, a great objectivity, eternal, stable, independent and pure.
101. Bodies, possessions, happiness, misery, friends or enemies are not the eternal associates of the soul; the soul is eternally constituted of the manifestation of consciousness.
1. Compare P. 65.
2. Compare II, 29 & 86 ante.