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Chapter 4<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 4 verse 13<\/a><\/p>\n Simple<\/a><\/p>\n na m\u0101\u1e41 karm\u0101\u1e47i limpanti ‘Works soil Me not. No interest have I in works\u2019 fruit.’<\/span><\/p>\n Because, the wonderful works of creation etc., do not soil Me, i. e., do not bind Me. The wonderful variety, such as deva<\/em>, man etc., are beings created by their own deeds of merit and demerit. Hence, inasmuch as one\u2019s own deed, or no-deed results in his becoming conditioned or not conditioned in material existence (pr\u0101pt\u0101pr\u0101pta-viveka<\/em>), the man himself is his author; and I, am free, i.e., I am No-author (in the sense that I am not answerable for the conditions which creatures bring upon themselves by their own deeds or works).<\/span><\/p>\n I am No-author, again, for another reason: that the born (or created in the world) embodied souls (kshetraj\u00f1as<\/em>), \u2014who by the conditions of creation, get endowed with limbs and bodies\u2014 take to enjoying the things of the world, as a consequence of their (selfish) attachment to fruit[2. Cp. Svet: Up: 1-8. \u2018An\u012b\u015ba\u015b-ch\u0101tm\u0101 badhyate bhokt\u1e5bi-bh\u0101v\u0101t\u2019 etc., and many other passages.]. Hence it is these that have interest in the fruits of kosmic creations, not that I have any interest.<\/span><\/p>\n The S\u016btra-k\u0101ra (or Vy\u0101sa, the framer of what are known as Brahma-s\u016btras<\/em>, Ved\u0101nta-s\u016btras<\/em> or Vy\u0101sa-s\u016btras<\/em>, or aphorisms exegetic of the Upanishads), says :\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018(The Lord) cannot be reproached with ‘inequality and cruelty’, for (karma<\/em>=merit and demerit) are regarded (by Him)\u2019[3. (Brahma-s\u016btra II-1 -34) = \u2018Vaishamya-nairgh\u1e5bi\u1e47ye na, s\u0101pekshatv\u0101t\u2019 etc.]<\/span><\/p>\n Bhagav\u0101n Par\u0101\u015bara as well, declares:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018In the act constituting the creation of beings, (He the Lord) is but the directing (or instrumental) Cause, because the creating forces verily have their roots in nature (pradh\u0101na<\/em>)[5. ‘Pradh\u0101na’ means the tendencies in the matter-stuff of creation, impressed thereon by the spiritual entities who are encased therein, by their Karma<\/em>. Hence \u2018pradh\u0101na\u2019 means karmic<\/em> forces, or samsk\u0101r\u0101s or skandh\u0101s (as the Buddhists call). This is equivalent to the Greek notion of ‘plastic nature’.].<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Save that ideal (or instrumental) Cause, no other is desired, and, O chief of ascetics!, the beings (deva<\/em>) etc., come into their (conditioned) existences in accordance with (their) own (karma<\/em>)-potencies.\u2019[6. Vish\u1e47u Pur:<\/em> I-4-51, 52:\u2014 I, Paramount Spirit (Paramapurusha), indeed, am the fashioning ideal Cause of the created beings, the devas<\/em> and such like ; but the chief factors determining the diversities of the kosmos, such as the devas<\/em>, man etc., are the antecedent karma<\/em>-potencies.<\/span><\/p>\n Save the instrumentality (or ideality), save the schematic power vested in Me, the Supreme Spirit, no other is needed to fashion out the marvellous representation of creatures, as devas<\/em> etc., in their embodied condition, except the inherent primal karma<\/em>-potencies, by which creatures become enfigured.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 4 verse 14<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 13 Simple na m\u0101\u1e41 karm\u0101\u1e47i limpanti na me karma-phale sp\u1e5bh\u0101 ‘Works soil Me not. No interest have I in works\u2019 fruit.’ Because, the wonderful works of creation etc., do not soil Me, i. e., do not bind Me. 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