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Prof. K.R. Sundararajan/Self-Consciousness in Ramanuja's Vedanta
Note 7
The jiva is thus entitled, by his essential nature, to the service of His Master as his
birthright in as higher degree as the eternal Suries themselves who have endless bliss of serving Him. But sunk in the beginning less Maya, he has fallen into the wilderness of matter
(prakriti), he has repeated births in quick succession, has lost the primary aim of existence, has found no comfort or consolation, has lost the splendor of his real nature owning to evil
desires... Well has it been said, "Trudging along the many thousand pathways of sarnsara consisting of the cycles of births and deaths, he has become deluded and exhausted and is
covered with the dust of tendencies left by the impressions of the mind.
Rahasyatrasyasara, Chapter 1, p.13.
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