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I am the Soul
The sages who wrote the scriptures, say that all five types of uni-sensory jivas have a constant styangriddhi nidra -- a kind of slumber. This slumber is like a state of unconsciousness. As a result, the jivas do not know what they are doing, but they can sense joy and sorrow. So it is said that these jivas have karmaphala chetana.
In the trasa jivas, both karma chetana and karmaphala chetana are present. They are aware that they are the karta. They have the experience of doing things, as in 'I do'. And they are the bhokta of external feelings. They experience the feelings of being bhokta, as in 'I suffer things'. As such, both the sensations abound in them.
These two sensations are there only as long as the jiva remains transformed in the affected disposition; and that too, only from the vyavahar naya viewpoint. But from the niscaya naya viewpoint, the jiva is the karta of only the natural disposition of jnana etc. The great poet Banarasidass has said -
भरमसौं करमका करता है चिदानंद, दरब विचार करतार भाव ना हिचै
The chidanand atma is a karta of karma only because of illusion. But when considered from the dravyatmak viewpoint, atma is the doer of only the own feelings. Similarly -
ग्यान-भाव ग्यानी करै, अग्यानी अग्यान,
दर्व कर्म पुद्गल करै, यह निहचै परवान
It should be understood from niscaya that the karta of jnana feelings is jnani, of ajnana feelings is ajnani and of dravyatmak feelings is a pudgal.
Thus the jiva is the karta and bhokta of only the pure chetana in the form of its own jnanopayoga and darshanopagyoga, which happens to be the pure state of peaceful true form, a state of trance. It has also been said -
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