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The Doer (Kartā) and the deed (Karma)
Answer: Dinesh may feel sorry for the death of Suresh' with
this knowing that it happened by Suresh's mistake. Question: Should Dinesh feel responsible for the death of
Suresh?
Answer: No. Question: Would Dinesh be punished? Answer: No.
Question: Would Dinesh be considered as a doer of the accident
in any way?
Answer: Here the answer would depend on the point of view.
For a police officer and newspaper correspondent, it would be important to include his name while describing the accident. But a jury/judge will give the verdict that Dinesh is innocent (not responsible for the death of Suresh, or, nondoer of the accident).
This example shows that if we do not care to know the whole story and simply emphasize only a part of the story [Suresh died in a road accident because of the car driven by Dinesh; or, Dinesh feels sorry for the death of Suresh; or, Dinesh involved in the fatal accident was set free by the jury) then it would not lead us to the truth. From this example, we learn that we need to understand not only about involvement of soul, but we also need to understand about Kārmika bonding or non-bonding. In case of Jñānī, who knows the distinction between Asrava (anger etc., i.e., actions of body and mind) and the Self, there would not be Kārmika bonding (see Gāthā 71 and 72). Therefore, a Jñāni is to be considered as the non-doer of anger. It is comparable with the involvement of Dinesh but no punishment to him as seen in this example. The judge sees him involved but a non-doer of the accident.
Another example can also be given in which in place of Dinesh we consider a driver named Deepak who is driving carelessly and due to Deepak's fault, an accident takes place and the motor cyclist dies. In such case, we can say that not only Deepak is
