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ON SAMYAGDRSTI
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दादेः प्रतिमाक्षेपे तद्भावः सर्वतो ध्रुवः । योग्यस्यायोग्यता वेति' न चैषा लोकसिद्धितः ।।३३३।। dārvādch fratimāksepé tadbhāvaḥ sarvato dhruvaḥ /
jogyaszāyogyatā veti na caisā lokasiddhitaḥ 1/333)/ If a wooden piece capable of turning into a statue inust necessarily turn into statue there should always be a statue wherever there is a wooden piece; alternatively, we would be compelled to declare that the wooden piece allegedly capable of turpiog iuto a statue (since it is not always and everywhere turning into a statue) is incapable of turning into a statue, but that is not tbe popular usage (for a wooden piece not actually turning into a statue is not called a wooden piece incapable of turning into a statue).
कर्मणोऽप्येतदाक्षेपे दानादौ भावभेदतः । फलभेदः कथं नु स्यात् तथा शास्त्रादिसङ्गतः ॥३३४॥ karmano' by clad akṣepe dānādau bhāvabhedataḥ /
phalabhedah katha nu syāl tatha śāstrādisangatah 1/3341/ Similarly, if karma must necessarily bring about perseverance (which meaus perseverance of one definite type) why is it that charity etc. yield different results to the agent corresponding to his different accompanying meptal attitudes?; that there is such a difference in results corresponding to the difference in the accompanying mental attitudes is the verdict of the scriptural tests etc.
शुभात् ततस्वसौ भावो हन्तायं तत्स्वभावभाक् । एवं किमत्र सिद्धं स्यात् तत एवास्त्वतो ह्यदः ॥३३५॥ śubhāl tatas tv asau bhāvo hantāyan talsvabhāvabhāk / eva kim atra siddham syāl tata evästr: ato hy adah 1/335//
Now it is an auspicious past karma that produces (at the time of charity etc.) an auspicious mental attitude, while it is the difference obtaining between such accompanying mental attitudes that is responsible for the same act yield different results to different agents. It might be asked as to what we are driving at; our reply is that we have thus been able to establish that a karma causes a mental attitude and a mental attitude causes karma (aud since developing a mental attitude is a case of perseverance it ineau's that karma and perseverance are mutually dependent-which is our original thesis, ..
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