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manifest ( Nature ) continue (in the chain of metempsychosis) till a hundred thousand years "; (2) The 'Evolutional' bondage is of those who worship the various evolutes of Nature, the elements, the sense-organs, the l-principle, and the Willas Spirit. With regard to these it is said. “The contemplators of the sense-organs continue till ten Manvantaras , those of the elements, till a hundred Manvantaras, those of the I-principle till thousand, and lastly, those of the Will, do away with all feverish excitement, and continue +ll ten thousand Manvantaras. Those labouring under this incidental bondage are Videhas. (3) The ‘Personal 'bondage is due to Iştāpārta ( actions like charities, sacrifices, digging of tanks etc., done with the cole motive of personal gains here. after ). Those performing such actions, having their minds influenced by desire, are ignorant of the true nature of the Spirit, and as such undergo bondage.
Karikā XLV From Dispassion results 'mergence* into Nature';
from Attachment which abounds in the Consequences of
of Rajas-attribute, transmigration ; from
Power, non-impediment, and from the reverse, the contrary.
various means
* Davies takes the Hindu commentators to task, and remarks “It (the Samkhya) does not recognise any absorption of the subil. body into Nature, until the soul is entirely free ... Hence the meaning is that by the destruction of passion the influence of the material world 19 destroyed, and the soul is independent, though not yet finally like rated." All this is quite truc; but it is not clear how this affects the position of the Hindu Commentators,' who, at least Vācaspati Misra, do not assert the final absorption of the bodies into Nature ; all that they mean is that by dispassion, the soul-or more properly, its seat, the subtle body-is absorbed into Nature and rests there till it is forn again.
