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CHAPTER III
83 एतेन तु स कर्त्तात्मा निश्चयविद्भिः परिकथितः ।
एवं खलु यो जानाति सः मुञ्चति सर्वकर्तृत्त्वम् ॥९७॥ ___97. The Self on account of ignorance, figures as the agent of the various karmas. Thus it is declared by the knowers of reality. Whoever realises this truth gives up all causal agency (relating to alien things).
COMMENTARY This gātha emphasises that it is ignorance which is the cause of making the Self karta, an agent causing all alien characteristics and, conversely, it is knowledge that leads to complete severance of the Self from alien activities and attributes.
Thus from the real point of view after denying that the Self is the karta of alien states, the author next asserts that it can be so from the vyavahāra point of view.
ववहारेण दू आदा करेदि घडपटरहादिदव्वाणि ।
करणाणि य कम्माणि य णोकम्माणीह विविहाणि ॥९८॥ vavahārena du ada karedi ghadapadarahadidavvāni karanāņi ya kammāņi ya nokammāniha vivihāņi
व्यवहारेण त्वात्मा करोति घटपटरथादिद्रव्याणि ।
करणानि च कर्माणि च नोकर्माणीह विविधानि ॥९८॥ 98. From the vyavahāra point of view, the Self constructs external objects such as a pot, a cloth, and a chariot. In the same manner he builds within himself the various types of senseorgans, karmic materials and (body-building) non-karmic materials.
COMMENTARY The Self in reality neither constructs any external objects nor produces internal modifications. The belief that he does so is associated with the ordinary man who thinks so from the vyavahara point of view.
जदि सो परदव्वाणि य करिन णियमेण तम्मओ होब्ब । जम्हा ण तम्मओ तेण सो ण तेसि हवदि कत्ता ॥६६॥
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