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Commentary. Our efforts to make others happy or miserable, and to take them on the right or wrong path are only auxiliary causes, In reality the soul is itself the primary cause of making itself miserable or happy, bound or released.
अज्झवसाणणिमित्तं जीवा वझति कम्मणा जदि हि। मुच्चंति मोक्खमग्गे ठिदा य ते किंकरोसि तुमं ॥ २७६ ॥ अध्यवसाननिमित्तं जीवा बध्यन्ते कर्मणा यदि हि । मुच्यते मोक्षमार्गे स्थिताश्च तर्हि किं करोषि त्वं ॥ २७६ ॥
279. If the souls are bound by Karmas owing to (their own) thought-activity being the auxiliary cause, and those fixed in the path of Liberation are liberated. What then is thy action.
Commentary.
It is an established and invariable rule that souls themselves are responsible for bondage on account of their own impure thought-activities, and for Liberation by their own fixity in selfabsorption. It is useless to maintain that one can make another bound or liberated. Every soul is the master of its own destiny.
कायेण दुक्खवेमिय सत्ते एवं तु जं मदि कुणसि। सव्वावि एस मिच्छा दुहिदा कम्मेण जदि सत्ता ॥ २८०॥ कायेन दुःखयामि सत्त्वान् एवं तु यन्मतिं करोषि । सर्वापि एषा मिथ्या दुःखिताः कर्मणा यदि सत्त्वाः ॥ २८० ॥ वाचाए दुक्खवेमिय सत्ते एवं तुजं मदि कुणसि । सव्वावि एस मिच्छा दुहिदा कम्मेण जदि सत्ता ॥ २८१॥ वाचा दुःखयामि सत्त्वान् एवं तु यन्मतिं करोषि । सर्वापि एषा मिथ्या दुःखिताः कर्मणा यदि सत्त्वाः ॥ २८१॥ मणसाए दुक्खवेमिय सत्ते एवं तुजं मदि कुणसि । सव्वावि एस मिच्छा दुहिदा कम्मेण जदि सत्ता ॥ २८२॥
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