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CHAPTER III
KARTA AND KARMA-THE DOER AND THE DEED
Dealing with the remaining seven padarthas such as (punya, papa, etc.) virtue, vice, etc., the author wants to emphasise once again that these seven padarthas are but the resultant secondary padarthas of the interaction of the two primary padarthas, jīva and ajiva, which are dealt with already. These two reappear again on the stage in different forms as agent and his action, Karta and Karma.
जाव ण वेदि विसेसंतरं तु आदासवाण दोहुणंपि । अण्णाणी तावदु सो कोहादिसु वट्टदे जीवो ॥ ६६ ॥ java na vedi visesamtaraṁ tu ādāsavāṇa dohuṇampi anṇāṇī tāva du so kohādisu vattade jivo (69) graza àfa fað¶rať zarzajazdıgglefq |
अज्ञानी तावत्स क्रोधादिषु वर्त्तते नीवः ॥ ६६ ॥
69. As long as the jiva or soul does not recognise that the entities, ātmā and Asrava-Self and Karmic inflow-are absolutely different from each other, so long will he remain devoid of knowledge and will identify himself with baser emotions of anger, etc.
कोहादिसु वट्टंतस्स तस्स कम्मस्स संचओ होदि । जीवस्सेवं बंधो भणिदो खलु सव्वदरसीहि ||७० ॥
kohadisu vattamtassa tassa kammassa samcao hodi jivassevam bamdho bhanido khalu savvadarasihim (70) क्रोधादिषु वर्त्तमानस्य तस्य कर्मणः संचयो भवति ।
जीवस्यैवं बन्धो भणितः खलु सर्वदर्शिभिः ॥७०॥
70. That jiva which thus indulges in anger, etc., will only have an increased inflow of Karmas and finally end with Karmic bondage. Thus was it truly declared by the All-knowing.
COMMENTARY
Ignorance of the distinction of the true nature of the Self and of the other alien entities is the root-cause of the trouble. The Self forgetting its pure nature imagines himself to be other than what he really is. He identifies himself with baser emotional experiences such as, "I am angry." This vitiated state of
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