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Chapter 15
An embodied soul, has been of God since time immemorial. God has never abandoned it, nor has had a disinclination for it. The soul can also not renounce Him, but in having misused Its freedom it has developed a disinclination for God; by an error. As ornaments made of gold cannot be separate from gold, so can, the embodied soul never be separate from God.
A so-called, wise man commits a blunder, that he has a disinclination for God, Whose fragment he is. He does not pay attention to the fact, that God being a disinterested friend of all beings, is very benevolent and noble and His benevolence and love, is beyond description. So it is an utter folly on his part, to regard perishable objects, as his, sacrificing the all-benevolent, and all-merciful Lord.
When a man performs his duty, by obeying Him, He liberates him from the bondage of birth and death, forever. But, if he however by error performs forbidden actions, He warns him through sufferings that he is suffering, because of his past evil actions and so he should not perform forbidden actions, again. Moreover, He purifies him of his past sins, by forcing him to reap the fruit of his past actions and prevent him from committing new sins.
God, regards a man (the soul) as His fragment, whether he is in hell or in heaven, in human-womb (life), or in animal-womb. How benevolent, generous and great He sees the downfall of men, and feels sad, He declares, that being qualified and deserving to attain Him, they do not attain Him, but go down to the lowest state (Gita 16/20).
God attracts him towards Him, in all circumstances, by creating pleasant and unpleasant, favourable and unfavourable circumstances. So a striver, should ever remain pleased and satisfied by thinking of His grace, because it is He, Who does not let him remain, in the same condition forever, otherwise he may forget Him.
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