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SAMAYSARA
178 the pure Self of the nature of consciousness Hence the pure Self cannot be considered as the causal agent of these two types of karmas This is the Message of the Scriptures But when the pure Self forgets its own real nature and identifies itself with the grosser emotions of the empirical ego, he is not able to repent for the past experiences, nor refrain from the future ones So long as he is thus spiritually incapacitated to wipe out the past and to reject the future, he feels himself responsible for all those impute emotions caused by karmic materials and thus he becomes the karta or the causal agent of those experiences
How the material condition can produce psychic states operating as nimitta and how the Self is concerned of related to this causal process is elucidated by an example taken from ordinary life
आधाकम्मादीया पोग्गलदव्वस्स जे इमे दोसा ।
कह ते कुव्वइ णाणी परदव्वगुणाउ जे णिच्च ॥२८६।। Adhākammādīyā poggaladavvassa je ime dosā Kaha te kuvvayı nāni paradavvagunavu je nichcham (286)
अध कर्माद्या पुदगलद्रव्यस्य य इमे दोषा ।
कथ तान्करोति ज्ञानी परद्रव्यगुणॉस्तु ये नित्य ॥२८॥ 286 How can the Self, the Knower, cause these defects in the material things used in the preparation of food since those are the attributes of external objects
आधाकम्म उद्देसिय च पोग्गलमय इम दव्व ।
कह त मम हो कय ज णिच्चमचेयण वुत्त ॥२८७॥ Adhākammam uddesiyam cha poggalamayam imam davvam Kaha tam mama hoyi kayam jam nichchhamacheyanam vuttam
(287) अध कर्मोद्देशिक च पुद्गलमयमिदम् द्रव्यम् ।
कथ तन्मम भवति कृत यन्नित्यमचेतनमुक्तम् ॥२८७॥ 287 Even when food is prepared by others for me, the things used are material in nature How can these defects be considered to be caused by me when they really pertain to inanimate objects
COMMENTARY In the case of the householder as well as the ascetic there
