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318. The enlightened Self equipped with complete nonattachment (merely) knows the fruits of various karmas, sweet or bitter. He therefore remains the non-enjoyer.
COMMENTARY
The knower, because he realises his own true nature, is uninfluenced by the environment, his own body or other enjoyable objects. Thus uninfluenced by these alien things and fully absorbed in the transcendental bliss of his own pure nature, he is not affected by the inferior type of pleasure-pain experience derived from sense-presented objects. Since he is unaffected by the objects of the perceptual world, he remains the abhoktā or the non-enjoyer, though he is fully aware of the fact that good produces pleasure and evil produces pain.
णवि कुब्वइ गवि वेदइ णाणी कम्माइ बहु पयाराइ । जाणइ पुण कम्मफलं बंधं पुण्णं च पावं च ॥३१९॥ navi kuvvai ņavi vedai nāņi kammãi bahu payārāi jāņai puna kammaphalam bamdhan punnam ca pāvam ca (319) नापि करोति नापि वेदयते ज्ञानी कर्माणि बहुप्रकाराणि ।
जानाति पुनः कर्मफलं बन्धं पुण्यं च पापं च ॥३१९॥
319. The knower neither produces the various kinds of karmas nor enjoys the fruits thereof, nevertheless he knows the nature of karmas and their results, either good or bad as well as the bondage.
दिट्ठी सयंपि णाणं अकारयं तह अवेदयं चेव । जाणइ य बंधमोक्खं कम्मुदयं णिज्जरं चेव ॥३२०॥ ditthi sayaṁpi nāņam akārayam taha avedayam ceva jāņai ya bandhamokkham kammudayań nijjaram ceva (320) दृष्टिः स्वयमपि ज्ञानमकारकं तथावेदकं चैव ।
जानाति च बन्धमोक्षौ कर्मोदयं निर्नरां चैव ॥३२०॥
320. Knowledge, too, like sight is neither the doer nor the enjoyer (of karmas); but only knows the bondage, the release, the operation of karmas and the shedding of karmas.
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