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Commentary. All conditions adopted by soul are possessed of soulness. Soul does not lose its attributes in any of its forms. It cannot be altered into non-soul. So non-soul modifies in non-soulness. All forms of non-soul possess all the attributes of non-soul. Non-soul can not be transformed into soul. The universe consists of two substances, soul and non-soul. Their combination is the cause of bondage or mundane existence, and their separation is Liberation. Had there been only one of the two substances, no bondage or liberation could have been possible. Soul by itself can never become impure; and all souls must therefore have been pure and perfect. If only non-soul existed in the universe, dead matter could not have any activity for bondage or liberation.
ण कुदोवि विउप्पण्णो जमा कज्ज ण तेण सो आदा। उप्पादेदि ण किंचिवि कारणमवि तेण सोहोदि ॥३३०॥ न कुतश्चिदप्युत्पन्नो यस्मात्कार्य न तेन स आत्मा । उत्पादयति न किंचित्कारणमपि तेन न स भवति ॥ ३३० ॥
330. Because the soul is not produced by anything whatever, therefore it is not an effect; it does not produce anything whatever, therefore it is not the cause either.
कम्मं पडुच्च कत्ता कत्तारं तह पडुञ्च कम्माणि । उप्पज्जंतिय णियमा सिद्धी दुण दिस्सदे अण्णा ॥ ३३१॥ कर्म प्रतीत्य कर्ता कर्तारं तथा प्रतीत्य कर्माणि । उत्पद्यते नियमात्सिद्धिस्तु न दृश्यतेऽन्या ॥ ३३१ ॥
331. Except that a doer (is called so) with reference to a deed done; and a deed, with reference to a doer, no other conclusion is ascertainable.
__Commentary. The doer and deed are related to each other. Modification of a substance is called its deed, the doer of which is the same substance.
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