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Prof. K.R. Sundararajan/Self-Consciousness in Ramanuja's Vedanta
Note 9
It is by the will of the Supreme Person that an individual is either in the state of bondage or
release. But this immanence... in the souls is not to be construed as to leave no freedom of action on their part. The souls resting in B (Brahman) and furnished by it with bodies and
sense organs as well as powers to use them, apply themselves of their own accord and in accordance with their wishes, to works either good or evil. No action is indeed possible
without the assent (anumati) of the inner Soul; but in all volitional actions there is the volitional effort (prayartana) made by the individual soul; the Supreme Soul, by giving it
assent carries out the action.
V.A. Suktankar, "Teachings of Vedanta according to Ramanuja", Vienna Oriental Journal, Volume xxii-3, 1909. p.302.
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