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has washed away the filth of vice – then there remains no uneasiness or distress.
होता स्वयं जगत परिणाम । मैं जग का करता क्या काम ।। दूर हटा परकृत परिणाम ।। HETIPİS Š 3Rr 11 (5)
hota suzam jagat parinam, mein jag ka karta kya kaang, door hata parakrit parinam, Sahjanand rahoon abhiram (5)
World does function by itself; What work of it does myself? Alien influence! Do get away! In bliss, for ever, may I stay. (5)
5. All the changes and transformations in the objects of the world occur by themselves. What am I doing to them? Nothing. Oh alien manifestations and influences! Get away! Let me remain established for ever in my real blissful nature.
COMMENTARY The modifications of all entities of the Universe are taking place by their own causation. I neither could do, nor can do, nor shall be able to do anything to any living being or non-living thing except self. That is to say I am not functioning by becoming one with any entity. Of course in any modification which an entity has at the time, another entity – whether it be myself or any other — may be acting as an auxiliary agent.
Other things apart, even the psychic dispositions of attachment and aversion in the empirical self, are the result of external/ auxiliary causes. I am therefore not identical with even these passions as they are not my innate nature (Starpa). I am simply passing through
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