Friday, September 12, 2014

SAMADHI PAD SUTRA -24

       KLESHA ,KARMA, VIPAKA, ASHAYAIRA APARAMRUSHTAH  PURUSHA VISHESHA          ISHWARAH

GOD IS THE SPECIAL PURUSHA, WHO IS NOT TOUCHED BY AFFLICTION(IGNORANCE)

 KARMA (ACTION),FRUITS OR EFFECTS OF KARMA ,AND THE IMPRESSION OF KARMA

     In the last SUTRA we were told to surrender to the GOD. or the Ishwara. So mow in this Sutra are told the characteristic of the GOD or the ISHWARA.
     So here one must understand the difference between the GOD and the individual soul . The difference is what are the qualities of the God or the Ishwara.In Vedantic thought process the PURUSHA is one which has no qualities or the Gunas . But the nature or the PRAKRUTI has the all the qualities.So the Ishwara is the 'reflection' of the (ultimate)BRAHMAN. and the reflection of the BRAHMAN in the MAYA is the ISHWARA. The Maya  is nature with predominance of SATWA.The God controls the Maya and is in it , but not affected by it.The individual JIVA or the Soul is the 'reflection' of the the same BRAHMAN, in AVIDYA, or ignorance, which is predominance of RAJASIC quality.So both the Ishwara and the Jiva are the reflection of same Brahman. But due to ignorance , the Jiva has all the problems .These are enumerated here
     There are 5 KLESHA. These includes AVIDYA (Ignorance),ASMITA (egoism), RAGA(attachment),DWESHA(hatred) and ABHINIVESH(attachment to life).These affect the JIVA but not the Ishwara.The Karma or the action that all of us have to do and we can not get out of doing it . Even when we think we are no doing any action, we are doing it . The thinking never stops and it is an action .The breathing is also an action. So when we do any action , there is a fruit or effect of the karma or the action.This is called VIPAKA.The effects of the Karma are 3 major categories . One is JATI, which is where we are born.AAYU, which is duration of life and lastly the BHOGA , which is what kind of enjoyment or sorrows we will get .The impressions of the Karma do not go away with the death of the physical body. They are stored in the astral body or in the CHITTA. This is called ASHAYA.
    So the JIVA has to have all these things as it is in ignorance and has predominance of the Rajasic some Tamasic Gunas.So we try to get 'free' from this ignorance and then we 'know ' the ISHWARA , which is free of all these qualities.


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