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reation to the pot or the cloth. The potter or the weaver or the carpenter must use his hands for making a pot, a cloth, or a chariot and must make use of his mind for constructing designs before executing them. Thus the external objects are the direct result of the bodily and mental activity of the maker. Hence what makes the pot or the cloth is not the spiritual entity, the Self. The Self is directly related to the bodily and mental activities, yoga and upayoga, which in their turn are able to make external objects operating as nimitta kartā, instrumental cause.
hus it is pointed out that the Self cannot even be the nimitta kartā of external objects except through the instrumentality of his own body and mind.
जे पोग्गलदव्वाणं परिणामा होति णाणआवरणा । ण करेदि पाणि आदा जो जाणदि सो हदि णाणी ॥१०१॥ je poggaladavräņam pariņāmā homti ņāņa āvaraņā ņa karedi tāņi ādā jo jāņadi so havadi nāni (101) ये पुद्गलद्रव्याणां परिणामा भवन्ति ज्ञानावरणानि ।
न करोति तान्यात्मा यो जानाति स भवति ज्ञानी ॥१०१॥
101. Those material modifications which become jñānāvaraņa, knowledge-obscuring karma, the Self does not make. He who knows this is the Knower.
COMMENTARY Jñānāvaraņa, the knowledge-obscuring karma, is here taken as a type of karma. What is true of this karma, must be taken as true in the case of the remaining karmas also. What is asserted here is that the knowledge-obscuring karma, jñānāvarana karma, is but modification of the material particles which are suitable to build up the structure of karma. Such particles of matter are called karma-prayogya-pudgala-paramānus—the primary atoms fit to make the karmic particles. Thus the various karmas are but the modifications of matter of which the Self, the Knower, Cannot in any way be the substantive cause. For example milk may get transformed into curd, butter etc. The person who supervises the dairy operations is only the spectator of the various modifications of milk. Similarly, the Self is only
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