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I am the Soul
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O Gurudev! It does not appear as if jiva is the doer of karma. But karma itself is the doer of karma. The karmas that are lying in charge on the jiva must be attracting more karmas towards them. Therefore, through karma, karma is bound with karma. For atma is animate and karma is inanimate. Indeed, the yoga of mind, speech and body through which karma is done, is also inanimate. The activity done by the inanimate absorbs inanimate karmas. So the inanimate karmas are bound with the inanimate. How can animate and inanimate be bound together? When you tie some thing with a thread, it is the thread to which the knot is tied. The knot is not tied with that thing. When you place a chain around the dog's neck, the chain is locked with the chain and not with the dog's neck. Thus the inanimate karmas do not get bound with the atma, but only with other inanimate karmas.
Indeed, atma is formless and according to sages karmas are with form. So the formless cannot be bound to something with form. Something with a form can be bound to some other thing with a form. It appears logical to say that karmas can be bound only with karmas.
If it were not so, the flow of karma into the atma must be happening of its own accord. It must be the natural disposition of karma that effortlessly, without any attempt on the part of the atma, it must be entering the atma. But if this is believed, then the performance of atma is not proved. If this were not so, then it must be the natural disposition of the jiva to be doing karma. But if we were to believe this, then there are no possibilities of the jiva reaching moksa. For natural disposition is that which cannot be separated from a substance. So if jiva is constantly doing karma, then it can never attain moksa. If all these options were not right, then -
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