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SAMAYASARA.
अज्ञानी पुनः रक्तः सर्वद्रव्येषु कर्ममध्यगतः ।
लिप्यते कर्मरजसा तु कर्दममध्ये यथा लोहं ॥ २३० ॥
230.
But the ignorant, enamoured of all things, fallen in the midst of Karmas, is soiled by the dirt of Karma, like iron in the midst of mire.
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Commentary.
He who is infatuated with delusion and error-feeding passions fails to see what is beneficial to his soul. He has no conviction in the pure and blissful nature of the soul, and therefore walks on the path reverse to Liberation. He is deeply attached to animate and inanimate objects in the world. His perverse knowledge becomes the cause of strong bondage of Karmas, which bring about innumerable conditions of existences, even in many low stages, from one-sensed to five-sensed beings. If he goes to hell, he is subjected to miseries for a long long time. If he is born as a common vegetable (Nigoda), it becomes very difficult for him to advance to the life of a mobile or Trasa soul
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But a right knower never descends to one-sensed sub-human conditions. If he has bound age-Karma, other than celestial, before attaining right belief, he will go to the enjoyment region and be born a human or a sub-human being, or born as a hellish being only in the first hell, because a right believer cannot go to lower hells. But if he has not bound these three ages, he will surely be a heavenly celestial of high degree. Right believing celestial and hellish beings will be born as human beings in high position with right belief. Right belief saves a soul from being degraded in worldly conditions. But a wrong believer being soiled by dirt of Karmic bondage is so lowered that even if he is a celestial in the first heaven, he may in the next life be born as a one-sensed vegetable. A wrong believer is like iron which is so soiled by contact with mire that it becomes useless. A wise man should therefore try to analyse and understand his soul from the real point of view as quite distinct from all effects of non-soul and should practise con templation of the soul's nature in a lonely place day after day. By constant practice, wrong belief and error-feeding passion-Karmas will subside and right belief with right knowledge will shine forth from inside; and then he will realise the soul and enjoy the nectar of happiness. He will be the conqueror of Karmas and will become the Highest Pure Soul.
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