________________ Pancastikaya-samgraha The karmas, too, as per their own-nature (svabhava) and on their own, get transformed [into the material-karmas (dravyakarma)] and, thus, are the doer (karta) of such transformations. Similarly, the soul (jiva), too, due to own karmic-dispositions (karma-bhava) [like rising (audayika)] is the doer (karta) of own dispositions (bhava). EXPLANATORY NOTE The verse refers to the sixfold factors-of-action (karaka) from the transcendental point-of-view (niscaya naya). As mentioned earlierl, for the accomplishment of work the sixfold factors-of-action (karaka) are required: 1) the doer (karta), 2) the activity (karma), 3) the instrument (karana), 4) the bestowal (sampradana), 5) the dislodgement (apadana), and the substratum (adhikarana). When the accomplishment of work is through external instrumental causes (nimitta karana) it is the empirical sixfold factors-of-action (vyavahara satkaraka) and when the accomplishment of work is for the self, in the self, through the self as the material cause (upadana karana), it is the transcendental sixfold factors-of-action (niscaya satkaraka). The transcendental sixfold factors-of-action (niscaya salkaraka) is based on the self and, therefore, true. Since every substance (dravya) is independent and is not a cause of either the creation or the destruction of other substances, the empirical sixfold factors-of-action (uyavahara salkaraka) is untrue. And since the transcendental sixfold factors-of-action (niscaya satkaraka) accomplishes the work of the self, in the self, through the self, it is true. 1 - see also Explanatory Note to verse 46, p. 103, ante. . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . 128
