शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

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sent actions (Karma) furnish the seed for our body in the
next birth. God the all bountiful makes the soul eat the
fruits of previous Karma (without suffering any change)
just as the soil makes the cultivator reap as he sowed.
(b). Just as iron is attracted to the magnet when a person
brings it in position, so the souls performing Karma join
the body in which the Karma is effected and eat the fruits
by the Arul of God. If they do not so enjoy by His Arul,
who else could know and make them eat the fruits of Karma
in the most unchangeable manner, in that condition, where
they lie helpless, without self knowledge, and self action,
enshrouded by Mala.
(c). The husk of the paddy or the rust of the copper is
not new but co-existed with the grain or copper; so the
three Mala, Maya, Karma and Anava co-exist with the soul
and were not acquired by it at any intermediate time.
These undergo change in the presence of God, just as
the Sun's rays cause one Lotus to open and another to close.
Third Argument.
Chūrnika.—The souls are subject to re-births losing their
previous forms.
Varthikam.—The souls are re-born after death as birth
and death are possible only to things existing eternally and
changing continually.
Illustrations (a). The soul passing at death from its
Sthula Sarira composed of eyes, ears, &c., into its Suk-
shuma Sarira which it had already, undergoes its experi-
ences in Heaven or Hell; and forgetting such experiences,
just as a dreamer forgets his experience of the waking
state, passes as an atom in its Sukshuma state into a suit-