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## Makttavami-Mansa: Love-Disease, the Primary Goal, Eternal
(639) It is indeed the true state of affairs, the nature of things, and therefore it can be treated as a disease. The disease may be a metaphor, a concept, a treatment, but "birth" is not a metaphor, a concept, or a treatment. Birth is the true reality (Absolute reality), an untreatable event, the primary goal, the essential state of affairs. It is the primary "chati" (manifest) thing, and this metaphorical event-treatment narrative is to understand it truly. And this treatment-like behavior also occurs in the best interests of the primary goal, the essential thing. For example, there is the existence of a real disease, and it can be treated metaphorically, there is the existence of a real lion, and the "lion-man" - the cat is treated as a metaphor for the lion, the man-lion is treated, but if it did not exist, then what treatment could it be? For example, the existence of a "vadhyasut" (a mythical creature), or a "akashpushp" (a flower that grows in the sky), or a "shashshanga" (a mythical creature) does not exist, so it is not possible to treat them.
This birth is born from a strange karma-like cause, which is eternal. According to the eternal law, every action must have a cause, so there must be a cause for the action of birth. Just as a disease arises from a specific cause, so too does this birth arise from a strange karma-like cause, different from the material and mental distinctions. And this karma-like cause is eternal. Therefore, this karma is eternally connected to this soul, bound by the relationship of association. This pairing of nature and soul is eternal, just as the association of gold and stone, or the association of army and soil is eternal.
"Just as gold is naturally associated with the earth, so too is the soul eternally associated with karma. The soul is called a worldly being as long as it is associated with karma." - Shri Anandghanji.
"The association of the inert and the conscious is eternal, infinite, and without a doer. This is what the Jina Bhagvant says." - Shrimad Rajchandraji.
If we do not accept this eternal association of karma and soul, then there is a contradiction. If we accept karma as the first, then who did the karma without the soul? And who did it attach to? If we accept the pure soul as the first, then what is the purpose of karma attaching to the pure soul? And if we accept that it attaches, then why wouldn't it attach to the pure, liberated soul? Again, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Which came first, the tree or the seed?
"Treatment is also often done in the world, primarily for the sake of the main thing. All this is just a fabrication." - Shri Gibindu, Shle, 15.