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none other. Therefore, those karmas are also capable of providing results.
An inanimate thing cannot do anything by itself, but if a human or bird or animal or some jiva provides momentum, there is a great strength even in the inanimate. This is not at all difficult to understand in today's scientific age. The ultimate part of pudgala is an atom, what can it do on its own? In spite of being endowed with immense strength, it cannot do any thing because it is inanimate. But when the same strength of the atom was harnessed and experimented upon, it produced the most destructive energy in this world and also developed the positive energy that could provide cures for so many major ailments. The inanimate energies have been mastered in so many other ways which are now proving useful to mankind.
Therefore, Gurudev says that a substance may not itself know but the strength that resides in it is still effective. In the same way the good and evil karmas are also capable of providing results to a jiva. Karmas residing on an atma produce results the moment they ripen after their given period. And after producing results they get detached from the atma on their own.
Thus the jiva is the doer and sufferer of karma.
Other logical arguments that prove the fact that atma suffers karma will soon follow ...
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