The soul is the agent, because the scripture declares that even in the state of Mukti it has pleasant activities. — 250.

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SUTRA II. 3. 32.

विहारोपदेशात्॥२.३.३२॥

vihāropadeśāt ..2.3.32..

… Vihara, play, sporting about. Upadeshat, on account of declaration.

32. The soul is the agent, because the scripture declares that even in the state of Mukti it has pleasant activities. — 250.

COMMENTARY

In the Chhandogya Upanishad the soul of the Mukta is thus described, (VIII., 12. 3):

He through whose grace this released soul, arising from its last body, and having approached the Highest Light, is restored to its own form is the Highest Person. The Mukta moves about there laughing, playing and rejoicing, with women, with carriages, with other Muktas of his own period or of the past Kalpas. (So great is his ecstasy) that he does not remember even the person standing near him, nor even his own body. And as a charioteer is appointed by his master to drive the carriage, just so is this Prana appointed to drive tins chariot of the, body.

This shows that even the Mukta Jiva plays about Thus we arrive at the conclusion that mere activity is not the cause of sorrow, (tor then the Mukta Jivas would not have been active), but it is perverted activity lone which is th-3 cause of pam, or to use technical phrase of the Gita, «It is the connection of the Soul with the Gunas which is the cause of pain».

SUTRA II. 3. 33.

उपादानात्॥२.३.३३॥

upādānāt ..2.3.33..

… Upadanat, on account of taking up, moving, seizing.

33. The soul is agent because in the state of sleep it takes the Pranas along with it. — 251

COMMENTARY

In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (II., 1. 18.) we find the following:

But when he moves about in sleep (and dream), then these are his worlds. He is, as it were, a great king; he is, as it were, a great Brahmana; he rises, as it were, and he falls. And as a great king might keep in his own subjects, and move about, according to his pleasure, within his own domain, thus does the soul control the various Pranas and move about, according to his pleasure, within his own body.

In the Gita also we find (XV., 8).:

When the soul acquired a body and when he abandoned it, he sized these and goeth with them, as the wind takes fragrances from their flowery receptacles.

This shows that the Jiva is an agent, because it takes up the Prana. As the magnet draws the iron, so the Jiva draws the Pranas. No doubt, the Pranas are the agents in seizing external objects. They are the agents in all physical activities of the body, but the soul is the direct agent, in catching hold and seizing the Prana, and making it work or not work. There is no other agent with regard to the taking up of Prana.

The author gives another reason in the next Sutra.

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