121. If according to your view the Self by himself is not
bound by karmas and does not have emotional modifications such as anger, etc., then he
must by nature remain non-manifesting. The next gatha says what is wrong if the Self
remains incapable of manifestation.
122. If the Self does not of his own accord undergo emotional
modifications such as anger, then empirical life or samsara will cease to be. This would
result in the Sankhya view.
123. If you maintain that it is karmic matter, by its own potency, that
causes in the Self emotional modifications such as anger, then how is it possible for
matter to produce any modification in the Self which is by nature incapable of
124. If it is your belief that the Self, without any extraneous influence,
undergoes emotional modifications such as anger, then oh disciple! Your statement,
"karmic matter of anger produces in the Self the emotion of anger," becomes
125. The Self in association with karmic material conditions of anger, has
the emotion of anger; of pride, has the emotion of pride; of deceipt, has the emotion of
deceipt; of greed, has the emotion of greed.