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DISCOURSE XIX
BONDAGE OF ACTIONS
Gentlemen!
While considering about the soul we came across the topic of 'Karmas' and the same is being dealt with at present. It is quite natural that we come across the description of Ravana and Goshalaka when we study Ramayana and Mahaviracharitra respectively.
In the proceeding discourse, we have discussed at length the nature of 'Karmas' (anti-natal acts) and the magnitude of their power. But this subject is very deep in significance and so much still remains to be said about the said subject. We therefore tell you to concentrate properly. A subtle subject would never be digested if mind and body have different locations.
There are two types of characters viz. Hero and a Villain on the stage in a drama. Therein a villain has to put the hero in embarrassing and humiliating situations. Sometimes to some extent he succeeds in doing so but in the denouement he falls flat and is very often ruined very badly. Same is the case in the worldly drama. Soul is the hero and Karmas are the villains. The latter are entrusted with the part of humiliating and depressing the former, but on the soul getting predominance Karmas are doomed.
If soul were solitary, it would have remained unadulterated in nature, would have remained in incessant flow of highest bliss and would have enjoyed eternal happiness. But the fact is that soul is not solitary. It is accompanied with Karmas and the bondage created by Karmas, in reality. As a consequence, it has to transmigrate from one life to the other and has to fall a prey to various miseries of birth, diseases and death.
One would inquire, "Since when the Soul is fettered with the ties of Karmas?" We shall reply to this query. It is not true that the soul once upon a time was in a state of utter purity, unfettered with the ties of Karmas, and after some time the soul was bound with such ties. The reason is that such assumption would lead to the absurdity of the emancipated soul again being bound by the ties of actions and thereby even the accomplished (liberated)
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