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7. "Mamātmā bhūtabhāvanaḥ" : Brahma-consciousness is the cause of a jīva's rise and fall. The term bhāvanaḥ can variously mean birth, existence, sustenance, or control. Brahma has embedded the seed of Ṛta (Cosmic order) and dharma in human nature. Ṛta is the law in creation. "Deeds beget appropriate rewards and a jīva has to experience them" is the cosmic law of ṛta. The practical application of ṛta in life is dharma.

This two-part tribute was published in December 1970 and January 1971 on the pages of Public Affairs, a monthly journal published by the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs. —Editors

PART 1

25. Antardīpikā-nyāya

This nyāya is concerned with the lamp in a house. In the light of the same lamp, someone reads, someone writes, some others do other work. Thus the same lamp is useful for a variety of things. Likewise if something has multifaceted application then this nyāya is used to describe that. In the other two nyāyas called dehalīdīpa-nyāya, kākākṣi-nyāya, a thing has two applications. The specialty here is that it has more.

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