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I am the Soul That jiva who harbours such feelings about the chitta, whose viewpoint is changed, remains untouched by the sansar in spite of living in it, like the lotus in water. It lives in the sansar, because it has to; the sansar does not live in it. Just as a boat which remains in water unlike the boat in which water remains and sinks it. Thus, the jiva has to remain in the sansar so long as it has not become shiva; however, it does not let the sansar make a home within it. The poet Banarasidass salutes such a superior person.
Srimadji too, calls those jivas as jnani, whose feeling of desire has weakened, has got pacified. Such a jnani person's attachment and aversion would be highly diminished despite being in the sansar. Therefore, they get a very limited bondage of karma.
Attachment and aversion - these two are the seed of karma. They are also the seed of imbalance. A person aglow with attachment and burned-up with aversion can neither see its own feelings nor the inner equanimity of all jivas. Those who cannot see equanimity, commit papa by getting attached to somebody or averse to somebody. Those with equanimity neither get attached nor averse to anybody. As such they do not commit papa.
सम्मतदंसि न करेइ पावं
This is a very cryptic sutra. Those, who can see papa in its proper true form, can never commit papa. Only those, who do not know or cannot see papa in its true form, can commit papa.
जानामि धर्मं न च मे प्रवृत्तिः
जानाम्यधर्मं न च मे निवृत्तिः
I know dharma but I do not practice it. I know adharma but do not give it up. This is the experience of the macro chitta. Since the Samyak darshan that occurs in the micro chitta does. not take the jiva into asamyak practice, a Samyak darshani jiva
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