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siring for what and for whom will he propitiate the body?” Hence the expressions āptakāmam ātmakāmam akāmam śokāntaram (Brh.): "One who has obtained all his desires, one who desires to realise his ātmā only, one who has no desires (for external objects), one who is beyond all grief.”
Hence, being attached to sense-objects, constantly thinking of them produces the sense of the 'l' in the body etc., through fall from one's true nature and, producing the idea of difference, it is the cause of the bondage of samsāra. Otherwise, how will there be the difference of what is desired, of what makes one to desire, and of desires in one who is firmly established in (the realisation of) his atman?
313 To the question how will the ahamkāra so destroyed revive again, it is replied:
कार्यप्रवर्धनाद्वीजप्रवृद्धि ः परिदृश्यते। कार्यनाशाद्वीजनाशस्तस्मात्कार्य निरोधयेत् ॥३१३ ॥ kāryapravardhanāt būjapravrddhiḥ paridrsyate i kāryanāśat bījanāśas tasmāt kāryam nirodhayet il
It is seen that when the effect is developed, its seed also is developed. When the effect is destroyed its source also is destroyed. Therefore, one should subdue the effect.
In the world, by the luxuriant growth of the effect like the shoot in the form of the stem, trunk and branches, the growth of the seed too is seen. For in the absence of the seed, the growth of the shoot will not arise. The shoot will not grow in the seed eaten up by worms. Hence, it is seen that when even a single seed is well developed by the association of the soil and water and dohada,45 i.e., the desire of plants at budding time, it grows into luxuriance in the form of shoot, leaves, trunk, branches, flowers and fruits and creates thousands of seeds. By the destruction of the effect (the shoots, leaves etc.,), the seed also is destroyed. If the seed itself which is the cause of the shoot is destroyed, the effect of the seed namely the full grown fruit will not arise. When that is destroyed, how will the seed arise? (For, the seed is to be obtained from the full grown fruit). Hence, if the effect, the thought of the sense
45 dohada, means the desire of plants at budding time as for instance the Asoka to be kicked by young ladies, of the Bakula to be sprinkled with mouthfuls of liquor.
