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Third Fundamental-Soul as Kartä
Karma. Suppose he gets an evil-minded neighbor, who starts abusing him for a wrongly perceived cause. Now if the person takes it as a consequence of his earlier Karma and bears it with equanimity, he does not acquire new Karma. Being, however, used to retaliate he gets angry and fights back. That tendency to fight back induces new Karma particles to enter the soul's province. The soul thus becomes the Kartä by virtue of its indulgence in craving or aversion.
Such capability to induce or inspire lies only with soul. The lifeless Pudgal cannot do that. It is therefore said in the second part of the stanza that lifeless objects do not have such capability. They can merely be instrumental to what happens. They can neither induce nor inspire any one to behave in a particular way. Suppose, in the above illustration, the person hits the neighbor with a stick. In that case the stick is no doubt instrumental in giving vent to the anger; if, however, the person keeps his anger under control, the stick is not going to prompt him to hit, nor is it going to hit the neighbor of its own accord.
Now suppose there is a watch lying somewhere. If someone picks it up, the watch lying in unattended condition becomes instrumental in being picked up. But if the person is not inclined to pick it, the watch is not going to tell him to pick it up. Therefore the Guru states that it is not the property of lifeless objects to induce or to inspire.
જuો ની હાની નહિણી , ઈ . ખી ar d eil zay edgidi alle, der alt yasi.
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Jo Chetan Karatum Nathi, Nathi Thatan To Karma Tethi Sahaj Swabhav Nahi, Temaj Nahin Jiv Dhammal.
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