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CHAPTER 2
Samkhya Theory and Yoga Practice
The personal Lord, the Divine Creator, is coeval with the empirical universe. In a sense He is the totality of empirical existences. "The Lord of the beings travels in the wombs. Though unborn he is born in many ways. "[1] S. says "Of a truth God is the only transmigrant.[2] Compare with this Pascal's statement that Christ will be in agony 'till the end of the world. He takes upon himself the wounds inflicted on humanity. He suffers the conditions of created existence. Liberated souls suffer in time and enter peace at the end of time, though they participate in Divine life even now. Only if the Personal Supreme is freely limited, we are helplessly limited. If He is master of the play of prakrti, we are subject to its play. Ignorance affects the individual spirit but not the Universal Spirit. Till the cosmic process ends, the multiplicity of individuals with their distinctive qualitative contents persists. The multiplicity is not separable from the cosmos. While the liberated souls know the truth and live in it, the unliberated ones pass from birth to birth, tied by the bondage of works.
13. dehino 'smin yathd dehe
kaumaram yauvanan jars
tatha dehantarapraptir
dhiras tatra na muhyati
(13) As the soul passes in this body through childhood, youth and age, even so is its taking on of another body. The sage is not perplexed by this.Cp. Visnu Smrti: XX, 49.The human being makes himself fit for immortality by passing through a series of births and deaths. The changes in the body do not mean changes in the soul. None of its embodiments is permanent.
14. matrasparsas tu kaunteya
sitosnasukhaduhkhadah
agamapayino 'nityas
tams litihsasva bhãrata
(14) Contacts with their objects, 0 Son of Kuntl (Arjuna), give rise to cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and go and do not last for ever, these learn to endure,Bhãrata (Arjuna).
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