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The Doer (Kartā) and the deed (Karma)
Gāthā 98 says that according to the relative point of view Hiralal is the maker or doer of the bangle. We know that this information is very useful in the factory where Hiralal works. Without such information Hiralal would not be able to get his wages. This shows the necessity and importance of the relative point of view.
If an ignorant person seriously asks, “Dear Hiralal, you are a wonderful person. We heard that you can make a bangle of gold. Is it right? Can you make a few bangles for us?” Then the serious answer of Hiralal would be, "No, I cannot make gold. If you want me to make bangles, you should provide sufficient gold, some instruments and my wages to me.” 'Hiralal cannot make gold' is one of the main points of Gāthā 99.
As regards such inability of Hiralal, almost everybody would agree to it. There may not be many ignorant persons who expect Hiralal to make gold. But for understanding the importance of Gāthā 99 in one's own life, one should search for one's own ignorance by exploring some other issues. For example, a mother might be ignorant in thinking that she could 'produce' a baby. Gāthā 98 says that the mother may be correct according to the relative point of view, but she is not correct in the real sense. Gāthā 99 cautions that in real sense, the mother cannot produce even a single molecule.
Gātha 99 reminds us of a basic principle that in the evolving entity and the evolved product there exists the same substance (using the words of Ātmakhyāti, one may call it the principle of Vyāpya-Vyāpaka Bhāva). To be more specific, in context with the soul, Gāthā 99 says that the soul can neither be the doer of o five kinds of substances nor it can be the doer of other souls.
Gāthā 100 gives finer aspects. According to Gāthā 100, in the transformation of gold coin into the bangle, Hiralal's soul got involved as a doer of his soul's Yoga and Upayoga. By Yoga, we here mean the motion of the soul Pradeśa while the hands a other parts of body of Hiralal were functioning in the making process. By Upayoga we here mean the perception and knowledge of Hiralal's soul associated with the desire and thought activity (Rāga Bhāva) of Hiralal's brain. This Gāthā says that Hiralal's
