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Ätmasiddhi
Chapter 11 Pupil's Fourth Doubt regarding Bearing
the Consequences of Karma After realizing that the soul acquires the bondage of Karma by its own indulgence, the pupil comes to the next aspect of bearing the consequences of those Karma. Here he comes across the problem of the agency or the mechanism that can extend the consequences of Karma. The soul is no doubt the Kartä, but who is going to judge its activities and hand down the appropriate consequences? There does not appear to be any agency that would function as the dispenser of justice. His problems in this respect are presented in the following three stanzas.
જીવ કર્મ કર્તા કહો, પણ ભોકતા નહિ સોય; શું સમજે જડ કર્મ કે, ફળ પરિણામી હોય?
TOEII
Jiv Karma Kartä Kaho, Pan Bhoktä Nahi Soy; Shun Samaje Jad Karma Ke, Fal Parinämi Hoy?
The soul may be the acquirer of Karma, but it is not the bearer of consequences, how can the lifeless Karma be intelligent enough to provide the consequences?
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