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The Self Realization
the bondage of its actions. An all knowing Soul will not do any action if action brings bondage to it. No person normally cuts his own legs. If actions automatically happen or the previous action causes the subsequent one, the Soul can then be a passive spectator of the series of actions, but it should not suffer from any bondage due to automatic actions. On the Samkhya view also, the Purusha or the Soul does not act at all and therefore it is wrong for the Samkhyas to make the Soul suffer for the activities of the non-intelligent prakrti i.e. matter, the soul can be held responsible for its actions and not for those of the Matter. Lastly, if God directs the Soul to do or not to do as He pleases then it will be unjust to say that the Soul should suffer for the actions done by it under the compelling inspiration of God, who is the author of the whole universe including the Souls. If the Soul does not act at all it never gets bound by actions and there is no need to think of the Soul's Liberation. If the Soul's nature is to act, and to act is to be bound then Soul can never be liberated as it is impossible for the Soul to change its nature. Hence it is useless to waste time in thinking of the path to Soul's Salvation or Liberation.
(b) The True Teacher's Reply: 5
होय न चेतन प्रेरणा, कोण ग्रहे तो कर्म ?
जडस्वभाव नहि प्रेरणा, जुओ विचारी धर्म ॥७४।। Hoya na chetana-prerana, kona grahe to karma ? Jadasvabhava nahi prerana, juo vichari dharma. 74 In bondage if the soul not acts, Who can accept the bondage worse ? Examine minutely the facts, No conscious acts in lifelessness. 74
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