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## Steadfast Vision: Karma and its Causes are External to the Soul
(481) This soul, a precious treasure, is revealed before us, completely unveiled. Yet, this ignorant world, like the blind, transgresses it! The reason for this is that they have not received the light of this supreme knowledge. Therefore, enveloped in the darkness of ignorance, they cannot see this ultimate treasure and act like the blind leading the blind!
The world transgresses before the revealed ultimate treasure... O Jinesar! They see without light! The world, blind leading the blind... O Jinesar! Dharma.
- Shri Anandghanji. But those with steadfast vision, those with right vision, have seen this inner revelation, which is beyond the external. They have received the light of the Lord of the World, and therefore they have seen this "revealed ultimate treasure." When such a person with right vision remembers their previous state of ignorance, they laugh at themselves! They think, "We forgot ourselves!" What greater darkness is there than forgetting oneself? Remembering this again and again makes us laugh! But now we will not forget again! The supremely compassionate Shrimad Rajchandraji has said in a very poignant verse:
"You forgot yourself, what darkness is this? Remembering, remembering, now we laugh, we will not forget again." - Shrimad Rajchandraji.
This knowledge of the Self is beyond the external, everything else is external, meaning karma, karma's causes, etc., are external to the soul. They do not enter the soul. Because, "Even though a thing with infinite power is revealed, it does not enter another thing. Because everything is determined by its own nature, why is it confused and suffering? There is only one thing here, not another thing. Therefore, that thing is that thing. What is the certainty of one thing about another? What does it do even though it is external? Whatever a thing does to another thing, it is only a change in itself. This is only a practical view, there is nothing else in certainty."
- Shri Amritchandracharya's Samyatsar Kalash.