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karmas. This is the Message of the Scriptures. But when the pure Self forgets its own real nature and identifies itself with the grosser emotions of the empirical ego, he is not able to repent for the past experiences, nor refrain from the future ones. So long as he is thus spiritually incapacitated to wipe out the past and to reject the future, he feels himself responsible for all those impure emotions caused by karmic materials and thus he becomes the kartā or the causal agent of those experiences.
How the material condition can produce psychic states operating as nimitta and how the Self is concerned or related to this causal process is elucidated by an example taken from ordinary life.
धाकम्मादीया पोग्गलदव्वस्स जे इमे दोसा । कह ते कुव्वइ णाणी परदव्वगुणाउ जे णिच्चं ॥२८६॥ ādhakammādīyā poggaladavvassa je ime dosā kaha te kuvvi ņānī paradavvaguņāu je niccam (286)
अधःकर्माद्याः पुद्गलद्रव्यस्य य इमे दोषाः ।
कथं तान्करोति ज्ञानी परद्रव्यगुणाँस्तु ये नित्यम् ॥२८६॥ 286. How can the Self, the Knower, cause these defects in the material things used in the preparation of food since those are the attributes of external objects.
आधाकम्मं उद्देसियं च पोग्गलमयं इमं दव्वं ।
कह तं मम हो कयं जं णिच्चमचेयणं वुत्तं ॥२८७।। ādhākammas uddesiyam ca poggalamayaṁ imam davvam kaha tam mama ho kayam jai niccamaceya nam vuttam (287)
अधःकर्मोद्देशिकं च पुद्गलमयमिदम् द्रव्यम् ।
कथं तन्मम भवति कृतं यन्नित्यमचेतनमुक्तम् ॥२८७॥ 287. Even when food is prepared by others for me, the things used are material in nature. How can these defects be considered to be caused by me when they really pertain to inanimate objects.
COMMENTARY In the case of the householder as well as the ascetic there are important principles prescribed in the matter of food. Only
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