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I am the Soul
685
In practice, the feeling that we carry that we have done this and done that for a certain person is an illusion. You cannot do anything to anybody. It is not as if you decide and something happens. You just become instrumental for whatever was to happen. You do not have the power to do anything. Since the natural disposition of the jiva has no kartrutva – activity, you cannot do anything. The sages who wrote the scriptures, while describing the salient features of dravya – substance, say that, 'astitva, vastutva, dravyatva, prameyatva, pradeshatva and agurulaghutva are the features of a dravya.' They have not stated kartrutva as the feature anywhere. In other words, kartrutva is not a quality of any substance. Each dravya is totally of the akarta nature and is affected only within its self. The natural transformation of all the six dravyas is unintentional. There is no sort of cause-effect feeling in it. In the transformation in affected disposition there is the relation of motivation. Any work can happen with anybody's motivation; like the earthen pot. The transformation that was to happen in the soil to becoming a pot is it upadanakaran, and the pot-maker, the wheel, the staff etc. are all nimittakaran. That is to say, any jiva can take the form of a nimittakaran for another jiva, but the upadana is the jiva's own. It is from this viewpoint, that it is said that one substance cannot do a thing to another. It has been said –
होता स्वयं जगत परिणाम, मै जगका करता क्या काम?
दूर रहो पर-कृत परिणाम, सहजानंद रहुं अभिराम . . .
In the entire universe, each substance is getting transformed on account of its own transitions. I do not have the power to do anything in the world, to the world. Only if the feeling, that I can do something, could be distanced from my self, then I could enjoy the bliss of nijanand – the bliss of the self.
The disciple too says the same thing. So long as he was transformed in the affected disposition, he came to be called the doer-sufferer of karma-karma's results. Or I myself believed
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