How Is Our Soul Different from Siva? - Nature of bonds

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Roman"> These are three types, namely, "aanavam", karma and maya. The bonds

are also taken to be five by adding "maayeyam" and "thirothaayi" to those

three. ("aanavam" = egoity). 50. What is "aanavam" (egoity)? It is

attached to the souls beginninglessly like verdigiris to copper. It is one but

is separate in each soul. It obstructs the intelligence and actions of the soul

and possesses many powers that cease at the end of their allotted time. It is

inert. 51. What are the karmas? These are the "punniyam" (merits) and the

"paavam" (sins) which are the effects of the souls of the actions of the souls

by their minds, by their speech, and by their bodies. During the life time of

the birth in which the actions are done they are called by the name

"aakhaamiyam". When the karmas which are "earned" in this manner from birth to

birth get attached to "buddhi tattva" (intelligence) and remain in maya till

they mature they are called by the name "chachitham". When the matured karmas

out of the "chanchitha" karmas produce effects by giving the body that is

thereafter taken (by the soul) and the pleasures and sorrows that are

experienced through that body they (the matured karmas) are called by the name

"praaraptham". 52. How many types of maya are there:

Roman"> It is of three types, namely, pure maya, impure maya and prakriti

maya. Out of these, the two called pure maya and impure maya are permanent.

Prakriti maya is impermanent because it appeared out impure maya. 53. What is

pure maya? It is eternal, pervasive, formless and inert, and is the material

cause of the forms of words and pure substances and does not cause delusion. 54.

What is impure maya? It is eternal, pervasive, formless, and inert, and is the

resting place during "pralaya" (the general destruction of the

universe) of the karmas of the souls and is the material cause for the

manifesting of the bodies, instruments, universe and objects of experience,

which are a mixture of pure and impure matter and which are also impure matter,

for the souls, and also cause delusion. 55. What are "mayeyam"? They are the

"tattva" (properties of maya) and their products which are the bodies,

instruments, universe and objects of experience. 56. What is "Thirothaayi"? It

is "Sivasakthi" (Power of Shiva) which activates and makes mature the three

malams called "aanavam", karma, and maya. "Thirothaayi" is referred to as a

"malam" as a matter of courtesy because it activates "malam". ("Malam" =

impurity; and impurity binds the soul). 57. For what purpose does Shivaperuman

give the souls the products of maya which are the bodies, instruments, universe

and objects of experience? The purpose is to eradicate the diseases which are

called "aanavam" and karma which bind the souls and to bestow on the souls the

great acquisition of the bliss of Siva. 58. Are not the bodies and instruments

also impurities? Is not "malam" impurity? How can the impurity "aanavam" be

removed by the impurity

"maya"? A dhoby applies cowdung and Fuller's earth to a new piece of cloth and

makes it very black and thereafter removes the pre-existent dirt and the added

dirt and makes the piece of cloth very white. In the same way Shivaperumaan

adds the impurity maya to the soul and removes the beginningless bond which is

the impurity "aanavam" and the orginally added bond which is the impurity maya

and thereby makes that soul have a supreme life of the nature of Shiva.

Thiruchchittampalam. for more details visit

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