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The Self Realization
A non-sentient matter cannot know its qualities or effects. For example, nector and poison have their objective qualities. As material objects they do not know their qualities and their effects, nor do they know whom they will benefit or harm, but they help or harm a living being who takes them. Nector regains life, poison ends it. Similarly material actions have their objective nature, though they are incapable of kno:ving it. The Soul has a certain type of interest in doing an. action and according to interest good or bad, it enjoys or suffers when its actions yield it fruits.
एक रांक ने एक नृप, ए आदि जे भेद ।
कारण विना न कार्य ते, ते ज शुभाशुभ वेद्य ॥८४।। Eka ranka ne eka nrpa, e adi je bheda, Karana vina na karya te, te ja shubhashubha vedya. 84 See one errant and one empress, Without some cause, no results strange, Both human beings, unevennessIs due to bad or good bondage. 84
The results of good and bad actions are unmistakably experienced, enjoyed or suffered by living beings in this world. We find in the world the differences of the prince and the pauper. One is born with a silver spoon in his mouth while to the other the whole life is a burden, a tale of series of unsuccessful struggles and frustrations. According to the law of causation there is no effect without a cause. The differences of status and enjoyment or suffering found in society must have their causes. One must admit therefore that if a man suffers for no fault of his in present life he does so for some of his bad actions of the past life. Similarly if a man enjoys good of life without being good in his present life, he does so for
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