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Samayasāra
Chapter - 10 and all other auxiliary paraphernalia, mental and physical-used by him in making the ornament.
Much in the same way, the soul like the goldsmith, cannot be identified with the karmic matter, threefold activities, bondage of karma and the hedonic value of the fruits of karma, because all these are external facts and are quite distinct from the nature of the soul. This picture of distinctness corresponds to the superficial and casual observation of the goldsmith's creative activity. On the other hand, from the other aspect, the creative activity of the soul is very much like the inner working of that of the artisan. The soul, in the worldly state of existence, visualizes mental/intellectual pictures of the objects of its desire and proceeds to transform the karmic matter into a pattern of karma which corresponds to the psychic visualization. All the worldly activities become subservient to its feelings and desires, emotions and passions and are transformed in accordance with them. Finally, the soul, like the artisan, cannot escape the experiencing of the hedonic values thereof. From this aspect, then, we have an identical and continuous self-expression and the soul, then, manifests itself, is not entirely different from the process itself. The process, the finished product and the value thereof are but the different stages in the creative activity. Hence, the soul cannot be differentiated from the joys and sufferings which are characteristic of all creative activities. Thus, the two accounts of the artisan's work from two aspects, correspond to the bondage of karma from empirical and transcendental aspects. The Soul's Characteristic Attributes-Transcendental Aspect
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