INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
mrtyum tirtva, sambhutya amrtam asnute.
Such births are invaluable steps which lead to
that condition of being without a body, akayam,
avranam, asnaviram etc. These are very important in
order to show that one has to distinguish between
karmas that take one down, because such karmas are
pleasure-seeking motivated. There are karmas which
lead to higher evolution because one seeks to
transcend all sorrow through knowledge and devotion.
These are important for evolution and liberation. There
are karmas which are divine and do not produce any
births. The divine personalities take births in order to
liberate man. Karma does not condition birth but birth
conditions karmas. These later do not come down to be
subject to laws of karma-rebirth sequence at all. They
may not elect to do any actions also-either divine or
human. They can be perfect contemplatives-jnanins
enjoying their samatva.
Their descent can only be through love – for to
emancipate souls in suffering from their suffering. Such
loving karma partakes of the divine nature, and can
produce only happiness – sukha, because it is done
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