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CHAPTER II एतेन तु स कर्त्तात्मा निश्चयविद्भिः परिकथितः ।
एवं खलु यो जानाति सः मुञ्चति सर्वकर्तृत्वम् ॥९७॥ 97. The Self on account of ignorance, figures as the agent of the various karmas. Thus it is declared by the knowers of reality. Whoever realises this truth gives up all causal agency (relating to alien things).
COMMENTARY
This gātha emphasises that it is ignorance which is the cause of making the Self kartā, an agent causing all alien characteristics and, conversely, it is knowledge that leads to complete severance of the Self from alien activities and attributes.
Thus from the real point of view after denying that the Self is the kartā of alien states, the author next asserts that it can be so from the vyavahāra point of view.
ववहारेण दु आदा करेदि घडपडरहादिवब्वाणि ।
करणाणि य कम्माणि य गोकम्माणीह विविहाणि ॥९८॥ vavahāreņa du ādā karedi ghadapadarahādidavvāņi karanāni ya kammāni ya nokamnantha vivihāni (98)
व्यवहारेण त्वात्मा करोति घटपटरथादिद्रव्याणि ।
करणानि च कर्माणि च नोकर्माणीह विविधानि ॥९८॥ 98. From the vyavahāra point of view, the Self constructs external objects such as a pot, a cloth, and a chariot.' In the same manner he builds within himself the various types of senseorgans, karmic materials and (body-building) non-karmic materials.
COMMENTARY
The Self in reality neither constructs any external objects nor produces internal modifications. The belief that he does so is associated with the ordinary man who thinks so from the vyavahāra point of view.
'जदि सो परदव्वाणि य करिन णियमेण तम्मओ होज्न । जम्हा ण तम्मओ तेण सो ण तेंसि हवदि कत्ता ||९
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