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from the bondage of good or bad actions (setia ar samsarati vă } It is not born in various forms, and it does not thus suffer from endless and continuous wanderings in this world, because only those that are bound by 'Karma' ( action ) have to suffer from continuoi's wanderings, but the Soul is free from the bondage of Karma, and hence, it does not move about in this world. [gova mucyaté ] the Soul has never to be free from Karma, because only those, who are involved into Karma, will try to get themselves free from the bondage of Karmas; but as Ātmā -the Soul-has no bondage of Karma; there is no question of its being free from it (zoa ar mocayati vā] and as Ātmā is not the doer of actions etc, it does not set others free from Karmas, 17 al gegryp-at atât Na vă eşa bāhyamabhyantaram vă véda ] The Soul does not know about ea mahat Intellect, **FIT Ahamkāra-Mamatva (mine-ness, etc, which are external and different from it, and it does not know its ownself which is the internal form because knowledge is the function of Nature, but it is not the nature of the Soul, and hence, it can be said that the Soul does not know the external, as well as, the internal form. In this way, you know through the Vedic verses, that the Soul has neither bondage nor Salvation but, at the same time, there are other Védic statements which assert that the Soul has bondage and Salvation, and these have created a doubt in your mind whether the Soul has bondage and Salvation or not. The following are the Vedic statements which say that Atmā has bondage as well as, ireedom :
["न ह वै सशरीरस्य प्रियाऽपिययोरपहतिरस्ति, अशरीरं वा वसन्तं पियाऽपिये न स्पृशतः ]"
Na ha vai sa-sarirasya priyā priyayorāpahatirasti, a-sarıram vã vasantam priyä'priyé na spriśatah
The meaning of the Vedic verse is follows :
lac, à UCITET fausfanatra father, Na ha vai sa-sarirasya prîyā 'priyayu-r-apahatı asti - The soul with the body i-e
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