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Prof. K.R. Sundararajan/Self-Consciousness in Ramanuja's Vedanta
Note 5
The heart of the whole sastra is this: The individual selves are essentially of the nature of
pure knowledge devoid of restriction and limitation. They get covered up by nescience in the shape of karma. The consequence is that the scope and breadth of their knowledge is
curtailed in accordance with their karma. They get embodied in the multifarious varieties of bodies from Brahma down to the lowest species. They are deluded into identification with
their bodies. In accordance to them they .become subject to joys and sorrows, which in essence constitute what is termed the river of transmigratory existence.
Verse 99 (pp. 79-80) (Trans. S.S. Raghavachar. (1978). Mysore: Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama)
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