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36 • The Path to Real Nature
v) derives pleasures or feels pain as other objects change
on the false assumption that those changes are helpful or harmful to his own self.
The above is only an illustration but all the five features apply simultaneously to all of our worldly feelings/actions. Only when a person understands the causal factors, one can acquire true knowledge about self and divert attention from associate cause to real cause and achieve self-realisation. The key to self-realisation lies in accepting the fact that every object is changing due to its own nature and there is nothing that a man has to do in other objects. His domain lies in his one self. Six-fold Causation (Shatkarak)
Causes can be classified into six as doer, deed, means, donee, donor and supportive stage. One who is independently able to perform is a doer and the accomplishment of doer is called a deed. Instruments used by the doer are termed as means and reason for the deed is known as purpose/donee and deed emerges from a given substance named as donor/ source, which is eternal in nature. The deed accomplished on some base/stage is called as support/basis.When associated factors/substances are mentioned for an action, such explanation is referred to as the empirical view and where the explanation is in terms of the nature/ability of the same substance it is referred to as the real point of view.
The empirical viewpoint is explained here taking an example of activity of making a pot. For example, the potter is the doer and the pot is the deed of the same. Disc/wheel, rod, etc., are the means and the pot is made for storing drinking water, taking soil from the basket and the whole act of making a pot is accomplished by the support of the earth.
