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to itself all Auids but no tint of their good or evil qualities cling to Him."
God is an embodiment of omnipotence and perfection. He can do and undo things in the world at his desire. As compared with Him the individual soul is an insignificant creature like the gnat. God is infinitely large and hence immeasurable. His magnitudes cannot be measured. Jiva is limited in knowledge, powers, and in all other respects. The jiva is finite. It enjoys pleasures and pains in the worldly life. It is affected by its Karmas; it acquires merit and demerit, pleasure and pain, good and evil and revolves on the cycle of birth and death while in sarısāra. God, on the contrary, is unchangeable and He is free from all imperfections, and hence, from merit and demerit, from pleasure and pain, from good and evil. The actions of the jivas are detremined by their past Karma, while God is independent and He acts according to His free will. The jiva is sinful and gets birth due to its past sins; and the nature of the worldly life is painful; it causes all kinds of pains. The acquisition of body is due to the past Karma and suffering is caused by one's desires.
The jiva is subject to various desires which ultimately cause in it evil qualities. In fact, the trouble
1 Fraser J. N. and Marathe K. B. (Tr.): The Poems of Tukārāma, Vol. II, 1649, p. 153.
2 Ibid. 1709, p. 171. 3 Ibid. 1349, p. 211. 4 Ibid. 1828, p. 205,
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