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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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If soul had not the load of Karmas it would have acquired Omniscience and would have crossed over all the miseries but the load of Karmas does not allow it to enjoy real happiness, but we do not realise misery as misery and it is great wonder that advice and moral preachings of your preceptor are meant for abating this load and for realising miseries as miseries.
Soul's slavery to Karmas is very rigid. A servant is dependent upon his master but his master who does not serve anyone is equally dependent. This dependence is the dependence upon Karmas. The master has to come to the shop, has to maintain accounts, has to remain in touch with the broker and commission agents arrived from abroad. He has to worry and care for his wife and children. Moreover, he has to take his lunch in time. He keeps a clock in front in the dining hall to watch the time carefully. If it is late by ten minutes he takes the cooks and the servants to task, but they are helpless and slaves of the Karmas. He has to endure everything, what is ordained by Karmas without grudge.
Indeed load of Karmas is very heavy Those who realise Karmic burden try to reduce to it. Reduction of this Karmic load is real earning and any increase in Karmic load is loss.
Gentlernen, due to this burden of Karmas, soul undergoes death in various existences at various times We have to consider how this burden can be lessened.
Every aspirant should reflect every moment how many kinds of sins does he commit and how many kinds does he avoid.
A monk has to retrograde from nine forms of sins. He has not to commit sins mentally, orally or physically, nor cause anyone to commit, nor encourage anyone to commit. The lay disciples have to retrograde from six forms of sins. They have not to commit sin, nor cause to commit. A lay disciple is allowed the concession of encouraging the commission of sins but this does not mean that he should enjoy this concession to his whim and free will. Suppose a man enjoys the concession of eating twenty five types of vegetables, it does not mean that he must eat all of them daily. This concession lays down the maximum limitation.
A man took a vow to serve the ill monk in monsoon. So he daily saw the monks and enquired if there was any monk ill. But no
