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TEACHINGS
79 are eternal. What is, does not perish. From nothing, nothing comes.
The third type teaches :
All things have the ātman, self or ego for their cause and object, they are produced by the self, they are manifested by the self, they are intimately connected with the self, they are bound up in the self. As, for instance, a water bubble is produced in water, grows in water, is not separate from water, but is bound up in water, so as to all things and the self.
The fourth type teaches .
One man admits action, another man does not admit action. Both men are alike, their case is the same, because they are actuated by the same force, ie by fate. It is their destiny that all beings, movable or immovable, come to have a body, to undergo the vicissitudes of life, and to experience pleasure and pain
Each of these four types stands as an example of akriyāvāda inasmuch as it fails to inspire moral and pious action, or to make an individual
responsible for an action and its consequences. ç The ajñānavāda, vinayavāda, and other types of kriyāvāda are nowhere clearly described. We are
*Sūtrakrtānga, II, I 15-34 , Jamna-Sūtras, II, PP 339-347.
