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śrīmad's Philosophy of Ārmadharma
follows : Knowledge is transient and different at every moment, but who knows all that? Unless soul is taken to be intransient, there cannot be one who can remember things of the past.62
In the third Tenet, Śrîmad deals with the argument that soul is always pure and does not do any karma. He rejects the argument regarding God, because, by saying that God creates or acts, we are actually degrading God and attributing to him good and even evil things. So far the argument that soul is always pure and does not do anything is concerned, Srīmad argues that it is generally accepted that soul is engrossed in or is attached to or enveloped in karma-handha. If soul does not do any act, how do the karmas get attracted or attached to it ? He very well accepts that if one's soul can develop a state when one can cease doing any aci. one is in a liberated state. But untill he attains that state, it is soul and soul alone which acts and gathers karmas. Yasovijayajī in his Adhyātmasāra has said the same thing.“
In favour of his view that there is liberation, Śrimad says : Soul is undergoing birth and death, because of its gathering karmas. It is therefore, natural that if it stops gathering karmas and destroys those gathered earlier, by penance, meditation cic.. then the soul is
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