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The Self Realization
some of his good deeds of the past life. By this unfailing law - "as you sow, so you reap", every Soul has to enjoy or suffer the fruits of his good or bad actions done in the past.
फळदाता ईश्वरतणी, एमां नथी जरूर ।
कर्म स्वभावे परिणमे, थाय भोगथी दूर ॥८५।। Phaladata ishvaratani, ema nathi jarura, Karma svabhave pariname, thaya bhogathi dura. 85 Fruit-giver God is not required, By nature bondage fructifies, No more the soul the juice enjoyed, The bondage falls, without surprise. 85
The actions done by the Soul have in them the natural potency of yielding definite fruits. Like nector and poison all good and bad deeds yield appropriate results, and thereafter they become ineffective. The Soul becomes free from its actions only after it enjoys or suffers the fruits thereof. There is no need to posit God as the giver of rewards or punishments as fruits of the Soul's actions. Do we not find that a small seed has a potency to develop into a huge tree ? Do we not find that the words of men create conflicts and lead to war, that they work sharper and stronger than the deadly weapons ? Do we not observe that a man-made machine say a railway engine carries away his loads ? From these examples, it is easy to hold that actions of the Soul have a natural power to yield definite fruits without fail.
ते ते भोग्य विशेषनां, स्थानक द्रव्य स्वभाव । गहन वात छे शिष्य आ, कही संक्षेपे साव ॥८६॥ Te te bhogya visheshana, sthanaka dravya svabhava, Gahana vata chhe shishya a, kahi sankshepe sava. 86
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