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CHAPTER VIII
कम्मोदयेण जीवा दुक्खबसुहिदा हवंदि जदि सब्वे ।
कम्मं च ण दिति तुहं कदोसि कहं दुक्खिदो तेहि ॥ २५५ ॥
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kammodayena jiva dukkhidasuhida havamdi jadi sarve kammam ca na diti tuham kadosi kaham dukkhido tehim (255) कर्मोदयेन जीवा दुःखितसुखिता भवन्ति यदि सर्वे ।
कर्म च न ददति तव कृतोऽसि कथं दुःखितस्तैः ॥२५५॥
255. If all living beings become miserable or happy only when their karmas begin to operate and since they do not give thee thy karmas, how art thou made miserable by them.
कम्मोदयेण जीवा दुक्खिदसुहिदा हवंति जदि सन्त्रे ।
कम्मं च ण दिति तुहं कह तं सुहिदो कदो तेहि ॥ २५६ ॥
kammodayena jivä dukkhiḍasuhida havamti jadi savve kamman ca na diti tuham kaha tai suhido kado tehim (256) कर्मोदयेन जीवा दुःखित सुखिता भवन्ति यदि सर्वे ।
कर्म च न ददति तव कथं त्वं सुखितः कृतस्तैः ॥ २५६॥
256. If all living beings become miserable or happy only when their karmas begin to operate and since they do not give thee thy karmas, how art thou made happy by them.
COMMENTARY
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Whether a living being is happy or miserable, is entirely determined by the operation of its karmas. If the causal condition is absent, the resultant experience will also cease to be. One's karma cannot be got as a gift from another. It is acquired only by one's own conduct in life. Hence one cannot make another happy or miserable. Hence the thought, "I make others happy or miserable or I am made happy or miserable by others' is certainly the mark of ajñāna. Thus through these gathas the author emphasises that death and life, misery and happiness are all the result of the operation of one's own karma.
जो मरदि जो य दुहिदो जायदि कम्मोदमेज सो सब्बो । तम्हा दु मारिवोद्रे दुहाबिदो वेदि गहु मिच्छा ॥ २५७ ॥
ja maradi jo ya duhido jayadi kammodayena so savvo tamha du māridode duhavido cedi rahu miccha (257)
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