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Chapter 15
God has given independence to the embodied soul, to make proper use of objects, such as a body etc., in order to, attain salvation, rather than to become their master. But by an error, It instead of properly utilizing these, regards Itself as their master and really becomes their slave.
It can renounce this assumed affinity, only when it comes to know, that It has become a slave, to mundane objects, such as body etc., whose master, It regards Itself. By doing so, he (the soul) feels a shortage of mundane objects and feels itself as an orphan
One who is fond of becoming a master, cannot attain God, because he forgets the real master. A child in childhood cannot live without his mother, but when it grows into a youth and as a householder, becomes a master of his sons and wife etc., he forgets his mother; so does the soul forget Its real master, when It becomes the master of insentient objects, such as the body etc. So long as, this forgetfulness continues i.e., It has a disinclination for God, and It will go on suffering.
The term'Ap',with the term 'Isvarah', has been used to denote, that this lord i.e., the individual soul is not powerless, insentient and dependent, like wind. It has capability and discrimination, to renounce the assumed affinity for the world and realize Its true affinity for God. But, it is because of Its yearning for sensual pleasures, that it neither renounces nor does It want to renounce, Its assumed affinity for the world. As soon as, It renounces this affinity, it cannot carry bodies (like the scent) with It i.e., he becomes free from birth and death.
A man (soul), has got two kinds of power (1) Life-breath power (2) Power of desire. The life-breath power, decays every moment and when it comes to an end, that is called death.
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