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RELATION BETWEEN ACTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS.
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AS THE COMING IN OF ANT PEOULIARITY IS ENTIRELY IMPOSSIBLE, ALL NOTIONS OF THE DOER AND THE EXPERIENCER", BEING IN BONDAGE' AND SO FORTH,IN REGARD TO THE SOUL -MUST BE INCOMPATIBLE; OR ELSE THE SOUL
IS SOMETHING EVANESCENT.-(546)
COMMENTARY
If the Troubles in the shape of Attachunent and the rest had really brought about the Bondage of the Soul-or if Contemplation and the rest had really produced certain peculiarities in the Soul,—then the idea of the Soul's Bondage and Liberation might have been admitted ; as a matter of fact, however, as the Soul is eternal (ex hypothesi), no peculiarities can be produced in it; for the same reason no ideas of Bondage and Liberation', --which presuppose limitations of the relation of Cause and Effect,-are possible in regard to the Soul :- just as in regard to Alasha.
Or else', -ie, if peculiaritios were actually produced in the Soul, then as the 'Peculiarity would be of the nature of the Soul, the Soul itself also, being non-different from the Peculiarity, would, like the Peculiarity, be something evanescenl.-If the Peculiarity were something different from the Soul, then, the idea of its being produced in the Soul would be wrong,-- as no connection would be possible (between the Soul and the Peculiarity). This matter has been discussed timos without number.-(546)
End of Chapter IX.
