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Chapter 13
Appendix:—The Lord in the second half of the nineteenth verse and in the first half of the twentieth verse has described `Prakrti', and in the second half of the twentieth verse and here in this verse, He has described 'Pump'.
Attachment to objects, persons and actions is `gunasanga' (attachment to modes) which is the cause of birth and death. Attachment to the modes is transient white detachment from the modes is eternal. Detachment is nature of the Self -`asango'hyayam purusah' (Brhada 4/3/15). If we are not attached to the transient or the modes, we can't follow the wheel of birth and death.
is inert (non-self) (Prakrti) and 'am' is sentient (self) (Purusa) and 'I am' - this is the identification of the Self with the non-Self. In 'I am' there is the sense of doership and enjoyership. If does not remain, then 'am' will not remain but 'is' will persist. As there is no identification of a lump of iron with fire, so the lump of iron remains lying on the earth, while fire from this hot lump of iron merges into the formless fire-element, similarly `ego' perists in Prakrti and `am' (being a form of 'is') merges into 'is'. In `is' there is neither doership nor enjoyership. It means that 'am' is attracted towards pleasures, 'is' is not attracted; 'am' becomes the doer and enjoyer, `is' does not become the doer and enjoyer. Therefore a striver instead of assuming 'am' should assume only 'is' viz., he should realize it.
Everyone realizes that pleasures and pains appear and disappear while the Self ever remains the same. Even the most sinful person realizes this fact. In spite of realizing this fact, a man feels happy and sad with the fleeting pleasures and pains. The reason is that attachment to pleasure and fear of pain do not let him realize that he is different from pleasure and pain—this discrimination does not work. In fact a man (the Self) does not feel happy and sad at all but he, identifying the Self with the body, assumes himself to be happy and sad. It means that pleasure (happiness) and pain (sadness) are based on his indiscriminative assumption only.
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