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Karma culminates naturally..
The devoted pursuit of the three gems is by the atma for the attainment of the atma. All efforts until now to attain something were made with the senses, mind or intellect; not with the atma. The experienced sages have indicated devoted pursuit for scrutinising the self with the self. For this purpose, we have to close the external eyes and open the internal eyes.
The curious disciple, on account of the knowledge acquired through the senses, mind and intellect, has begun to doubt the principles related to extrasensory atma. After having accepted that atma is the doer of karma, he now has a doubt as to how atma can be the sufferer of the karma's results. Gurudev is clarifying these doubts.
Having brought the disparities in the jivas to notice, it is proved that these are the suffering of a jiva 's karmas. If Eshwar is not the doer of karma, he is neither capable of providing results of karma to the jiva. And if he begins to sit in judgement over the jiva's karmas, Eshwar loses his Eshwarhood. This is accepted by the disciple too. Yet there is a stray feeling in the mind that if Eshwar does not provide results then there will be no law in the Universe. Therefore, the jiva would not suffer the good or evil result of the karma at all.
Gurudev provides the clarification to this doubt.
फळदाता ईश्वरतणी, एमां नथी जरूर;
कर्म स्वभावे परिण, थाय भोगथी दूर
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O Disciple! You understand yourself that the Eshwar is incapable of providing results. So you may forget the matter that the jiva will suffer only if Eshwar provides fruit. The other matter is that we are seeing the jiva suffer the results of goodevil karmas. One is happy while another is woeful, this is the
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