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CHAPTER tit reation to the pot or the cloth. The potter or the weaver or the carpenter must use his hands for making a pot, a clɔth, or a chariot and must make use of his mind for constructing designs before executing them. Thus the external objects are the direct result of the bodily and mental activity of the inaker. Hence what makes the pot or the cloth is not the spiritual entity, the Self. The Self is directly related to the bodily and inental activities, yoga and upayoga, which in their turn are able to make external objects operating as nimitta karta, instrumental cause. Thus it is pointed out that the Self cannot even be the nimitta karta of external objects except through the instrumentality of his own body and mind.
जे पोग्गलदव्वाणं परिणामा होति णाणआवरणा । ण करेदि ताणि आदा जो जाणदि सो हवदि णाणी ॥१०१।। je poggaladavränaṁ parināma hořti ņāņa āvarana ņa karedi tāņi ada jo jāņadi so havadi ņāņi (101)
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101. Those material modifications which become ñandvarana, knowledge-obscuring karma, the Self does not make. He who knows this is the Knower.
COMMENTARY
Fñānāvarana, the knowledge-obscuring karma, is here taken as a type of karma. What is true of this karma, must be taken as true in the case of the remaining karmas also. What is asserted here is that the knowledge-obscuring karma, jñānāvarana karma, is but iodification of the material particles which are suitable to build up the structure of karma. Such particles of matter are called karma-prayogya-pudgala-paramānus—the primary atoms fit to make the karmic particles. Thus the various karmas are but the modifications of matter of which the Self, the Knower, Cannot in any way be the substantive cause. For example milk may get transformed into curd, butter etc. The person who supervises the dairy operations is only the spectator of the various modifications of milk. Similarly, the Self is only
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