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Or if the speaker knows that knowledge is of transient objects, such speaker is not transient, (for the sayer must be continuous, i. e., the same to predicate transitoriness of the preceding instant). Ascertain (this) by experience (or observation).
70 क्यारे कोइ वस्तुनो, केवल होय न नाश । चेतन पामे नाश तो, केमां भले तपास ॥७० ॥ कदापि कस्यचिन्नाशो वस्तुनो नैव केवलम् । चेतना नश्यति चेत् तु किंरूपः स्याद् गवेषय ॥७॥
Never any substance is entirely destroyed, (i. e., it can be traced through its several conditions, e.g., gold in a bangle through a ring or a chain or a necklace); if consciousness is destroyed, find in what it is transmuted.
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III.—THE SOUL IS THE DOER OF KARMAS
The Pupil's doubt.
71 कर्ता जीव न कर्मनो, कर्मज कर्ता कर्म । अथवा सहज स्वभाव कां, कर्म जीवनो धर्म ॥७१॥
आत्मा नो कर्मणः कर्ता कर्मकर्ताऽस्ति कर्म वै । वा सहजः स्वभावः स्यात् कर्मणो जीवधर्मता ॥७१॥
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