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I am the Soul
479 believing Eshwar to be the provider of effect, the true form of Eshwar will be damaged.
The infinite number of jivas of this universe, except for the Siddhas, are all with karma. Each jiva has to suffer the effect of karma from time to time. Eshwar will have to offer the effect to each jiva from time to time. Now if Eshwar were to get involved with this then he would be constantly affected. Eshwar means a liberated atma. He is merely a doer of his own true disposition. He is engaged in his own true form. But if it were to be engaged in the activity of offering results of karmas to jivas, then there appears the doer nature of extraneous thoughts. If in keeping an account of the karmas of so many jivas, he himself gets smeared with karma, then his status of Eshwar cannot last.
If the status of Eshwar is not in him, then he is like any common animate being. Then he too would entail karma and who would make him suffer the result of his karmas? Thus this leads to a lot of chaos. Therefore, Eshwar is also not capable of offering the result of karma to jivas. He does not come out of his Eshwar status and offer any result. If that is the case, then the status of sufferer will not be proved at all. Therefore, the disciple says -
ईश्वर सिद्ध थया विना, जगत नियम नहि होय; TEST TATTH THAI, TT
P r e .....68 O Gurudev! Eshwar means the complete person. The supreme soul of pure true disposition and sans all emotions. Such an Eshwar cannot be proved to be the giver of results to jivas. He does not get involved with the affairs of the material world. It is easy to say so, but then how does the mechanism of this world run so smoothly, who runs it? We observe that all the activity of the universe - nature follows a set of rules. The rise and setting of Sun, the climatic cycles, the days and nights, the movement of the planets, the growing of trees, the flowing of a
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