PARABRAHMA SUTRAS (112-115)

112. Tatraapi naantah paakshikam baahyamapi tadapi tasmaat.

Translation: Even there, there is no internal control and even the external control is partial and even that is due to the will of God only.

Explanation: In ordinary human beings, the soul or jeevatman is the partial controller of the external gross body because the gross body moves according to the will of the soul. However this does not mean that the soul or Para prakriti is the absolute controller of the inert gross body or Apara prakriti. Both these are just the colleagues of the same class of creation. The soul cannot control the gross body internally since the soul cannot rectify the damaged internal systems like heart, kidneys etc. of the gross body. The external control is just by co-operation as per the order of God. When the inert gross body is hit by another huge inert stone, the soul is unable to control the fall of the stone and is unable to live in the gross body. The soul runs away in this situation, called as death. Therefore, even the external control is partial only as per the wish of God.

113. Tasyechchayaa paakshikaastamayah kvachit.

Translation: By His will, even the external control disappears as seen in some divine incidents.

Explanation: Even the external control of Apara prakriti by Para prakriti disappears sometimes, as seen in some divine incidents. Sometimes, when God withdraws His wish, even this partial control of inert gross body by the soul disappears. The limbs like legs and hands of the gross body do not function if God wishes so or according to the punishments of the sin as given by the administration of God. Therefore, the movement of limbs of gross body according to the will of the soul is only a granted boon by God to the soul. Such control is not inherent claim of the soul. In the case of paralysis, the limbs do not move inspite of the intensive wish of the soul. Hence, there is no difference between the inert Apara prakriti and the alive Para prakriti as far as the control of God is concerned.

114. Indropi stabdho naraanaamapi darshanaat.

Translation: Even Indra was paralyzed and such state is also seen in human beings.

Explanation: Even the nature of the self, which is the process of thinking is also under the control of God. Even the soul of Indra, the king of angels, was paralyzed by Lord Shiva in one incident. The soul of Indra could not function at all and lost its characteristic of thinking. When this is the case of Indra, the soul of a human being is nothing before the Lord. When a human being enters the state of coma, the process of thinking stops and this proves that the soul has no control even on itself.

115. Svarupalakshanaanyapi tadaajnaavashaani.

Translation: Even the characteristics of items are bound by the order of the God only.

Explanation: In this creation, every item has some inherent characteristic by which the item is identified. Fire is identified by heat and the water by cooling. These are the inherent characteristics of the items. But even these items and their inherent characteristics associated with these items are by the order of God only. By the will of God only, the fire is hot and water is cool. If God wishes, the fire becomes cool and the water becomes hot. Thus, the association of a particular characteristic with its corresponding specific item is only due to the will of Lord. Hence, the process of thinking, which is the inherent characteristic of soul, is also due to the will of God. If the Lord wishes a non-living item can start thinking and a living item can stop thinking like an inert item.