| 15. Whatever action
a man does by the body speech and mind, right or the opposite, these five are
its causes. Right: not opposed to dharma, taught in the sastra. The opposite:
what is opposed to dharma and opposed to sastra. Even those actions,the act
of twinkling and the like,which are the necessary conditions of life are denoted
by the expression the right or the opposite, since they are but the effects
of the past dharma and adharma. Its causes: the causes of every action.(Objection):The
body, etc. (xviii. 14), are necessary factors in every action. Why do you speak
of (a distinction in actions) in the words whatever action a man does by the(answer):This
objection cannot be urged against us, In the performance of every action, whether
enjoyed or forbidden, one of the three body, speech or mindhas a more prominent
share than the rest; while seeing, bearing, and other activities, which form
mere concomitants of Life, are subordinate to the activity of that one. All
actions are thus classed into three groups and are spoken of as performed by
body, or speech, or mind. Even at the time of fruition, the fruit of an action
is enjoyed through the instrumentality of body, speech and mind, one of them
being more prominent than the rest. Hence no .gainsaying of the assertion that
all the five are the causes of action (xviii. I 4·) The agency of the self
i.e. an illusion. |
