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PURUSHARTHA-SIDDHYUPAYA
patent. The latent potentialities become fully manifested, and the imperfect soul, becomes the perfect Soul, Parmátmá.
जीवकृतं परिणामं निमित्तमात्रं प्रपद्य पुनरन्ये । स्वयमेव परिणमन्तेऽत्र पुद्गलाः कर्मभावेन ॥ १२ ॥
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12. Again, other molecules of matter, coming in contact with the stimulus of (impure) thought-activities emanating from the Jiva, themselves turn into the form of Karma.
Commentary.
This process of conversion into Karmic molecules, and combination with Jiva is automatic and contemporaneous, caused by the stimulus of impure thought activities, like the imprint of an image on a sensitive plate on exposure to light; or the conversion of water into vapour by the effect of the heat.
परिणममाणस्य चितश्चिदात्मकैः स्वयमपि स्वकैर्भावैः । भवति हि निमित्तमात्रं पौद्गलिकं कर्म तस्यापि ॥ १३ ॥
13. To a Jiva, modifying itself by its own (impure) thought activities, the material Karma (in operation) acts only as a stimulus.
Commentary.
It is the Jiva itself which undergoes a modification in its own impure thought activities. The operation of a Karma, already in bondage with it acts as a stimulating cause to such modification.
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Jiva and matter both have the capacity of modification. The modification, however, would not go beyond the scope of their res pective attributes. A Jiva would in spite of all modifications remain a Jiva, and would never get modified into matter; and so would matter never get modified into Jiva. But there is a sort of reciprocal connection of cause and effect between them, inasmuch as the impure thought activity of a Jiva is an auxiliary cause to the conversion of karmic molecules into Karmas, and the operation of boundup Karmas becomes an auxiliary cause for the impure thought activities of a Jiva. This reciprocal action is the cause of the ever-continuous existence of Jiva in mundane condition. Matter existing by
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