Passage 2

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But when it comes to acts, he goes on acting cruelly. Another is harsh in his words and … …. When it comes to acts, he goes on performing the act very gently. On the ground of … … one …, a man comes to bear the name harsh or gentle. The … fruit of these karmas alone gives man sorrow. Whether this sorrow is natural or … in the middle, we must inquire. When one inquires, some … thinking that sorrow is natural to man; truly, if this is one's very nature, it is in no one's power to get rid of it. To change… one's nature is in no one's power. If it is one's very nature, one would have to suffer sorrow alone all one's life. When one … inquires in this way: if sorrow itself were one's nature, the form too would change. Svarūpa and svabhāva: a … relation. Sweetness is the nature of jaggery. Take away the sweetness that is its nature and the jaggery too … …; … is not there. Without the sweetness it is a lump of mud. So if sorrow itself were one's nature, humanness itself would be uprooted …; … man's nature is not sorrow. Ānanda itself is their nature. This Ānanda we keep pushing away … through karmas. When we do not … a fire that is burning well, it is covered with ash, and that hides even the fire from sight. But the ash that … the fire, where did it come from? It came from the fire itself. The ash that came from the fire covers … the fire itself; blow that ash away and the ash goes, the fire is seen. In the same way, man's … is Ānanda itself. The ash called worldly karmas has covered this nature called Ānanda. This … nature … that has entered. Thinking so and believing it, only when … what is fit to remove it does our nature rise in us again. So what is called sorrow … man's nature …. Hardship too is not one's nature. Loss too is not our nature.

Believing that the fruit of our karmas is the root of all, we must … right karmas.

Of karma man is born, by karma alone he grows, by karma he goes; karma alone is God to man, karma alone is the cause of joy and sorrow in this world.

The fruit of the karmas … perform is itself our joy and sorrow. But at times we think that that is …; yet when we inquire, some impurity … has crept into that karma.