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310. The Self is not an effect because it is not produced by anything whatever, nor is it a cause because it does not produce anything whatever.
कम्मं पडुच्च कत्ता कत्तारं तह पडुच्च कम्माणि । उप्पळतिय णियमा सिद्धी दु ण दीसए अण्णा ॥३११॥ kamman paducca katta kattāram taha paducca kammāni uppajjaħtiya niyamā siddhi du na dīsae anņā (311) कर्म प्रतीत्य कर्ता कर्तारं तथा प्रतीत्य कर्माणि । उत्पद्यन्ते च नियमात् सिद्धिस्तु न दृश्यतेऽन्या ॥३११॥
311. The manifested effect conditions the nature of the manifesting agent and similarly the manifesting agent determines the nature of effects. This is the principle of causation that is observed to operate in the world of reality and no other principle is evident.
COMMENTARY Whatever is produced by the direct self-manifestation of jiva, the living, being, is also of the nature of the living being and cannot be a non-living thing. In the same manner whatever is produced by the direct manifestation of the non-living material must also be of the nature of non-living material and cannot certainly be of the nature of the living being. Thus all things whether animate or inanimate and their manifested products must be identical in nature just as gold and the ornaments made thereof. Thus no substance can be really responsible as a causal agent for the appearance of objects of entirely different nature. When this principle is admitted, then it necessarily follows that the inanimate effect cannot be caused by the living jīva. Hence it follows that jiva or the self is akartā, that is, he is not a causal agent influencing non-living karmic matter. It is only from the un-enlightened point of view that the Self is described as the causal agent, whereas the real and enlightened view takes him to be otherwise.
Next it is pointed out that the bondage of the Self by karmic materials is brought about by the wonderful potency of nescience or ajñana.
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