Mmgl Annex Iii (30-3) - 36. Action Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

The sufferings and sins, besides the reaction of these two, are the results of guilty actions.

37. Result
Feeling, living body, senses, touch, sight, birth, old age, sickness, death—these are the results of guilty actions.

38. Heavenly abode - Nature
Guilt, action, result- these are troublesome ones. The quality of appearance will not stay long on account of these three. Whatever higher or lower thing, (animate or inanimate) it has no separate soul as such. If this feeling comes, it is fit for reaching Heavenly abode.

39. Truths - Four
Feeling, life in body, senses, touch, sight, birth, sickness, old age, death, trouble, agitation, worry—these are the sources of all pains and this is the first truth. For these pains ignorance, action, desire, and attachment—these are the causes for the action part and this is the second truth. For worry and appearance the attachment is the cause and this is the third truth. For pleasure and heavenly abode, the detachment is the cause and this is the fourth truth.

40. Five kinds of experience (vasanas)
Shape, enjoyment, motive, behavior, intelligent mind, these are the five kinds of experience.

41. Cases - four kinds
Wealth, continuity, good speech, agreeable speech—these four combinations form true case. No case. True case based on existent case. False case based on non-existent case. No case based on existent case. True case based on non-existent case—these are the six cases.

42. Wealth - continuity
The aforesaid wealth consists of body, water and country. The continuity is seed, sprout, stem which grow continuously. Several minerals form the body. Several drops make this water. Several towns become one country.

43. Goodness of speech
To speak goodness means to say high of a thing that decays, that appears, that is old

44. Agreeable speech
Agreeable speech means not the letters forming a sentence as one unit, but to measure the boundary of a period of several days.

45. Six kinds of cases - detailed explanation
To say the existing feeling as existing is the true case. To say the non-existing hare's horn as non-existent is no case at all. To say the existing feeling with its vision as existing it is a true case based on the truth. To say ‘a feeling like lightning' it is true based on false case. To say about the action without reason, it is existing but based on false case. To say ‘hare's horn is non-existent, so hare has no appearance' is no case based on non-existent.

46. Qualities - four
There are clearly known four qualities. They are combined quality, differential quality, confusing quality, natural quality.

(a) Combined quality
Those actions with reasons not considering the differences, they are combined actions with reasons.
(b) differential quality
To feel that the reason and action are different from one another, it is a differential quality.
(c) Non-understanding quality
If there is no proper mind to understand the cause for any action, then it is non-understanding quality.
(d) Good nature quality
To understand that in the paddy seed the sprout will appear, then it is a good nature quality.

47. Result of qualities
In the aforesaid four qualities, the result of our action is based on reason and they cannot act independently. So, attachment should not be there for these things. There should be no action without any principle. Because of the reason, an action is born, not that it is or it is not a caused action.

48. Questions and answers - Four
There are four questions and answers. They are to tell finally and boldly, or to say one by one in batches, or to put a question against another question, or to remain silent.

(a) To tell boldly
When a question is asked, ‘What has appeared one, will it decay or not decay? If the answer is ‘it will decay' it is one sided bold statement.

(b) To tell in batches
When a question is asked, ‘will the dead man be born', if the reply is ‘has he given up attachment or not given up attachment, ' then his reply goes further as ‘ if he has given up attachment he will not be born and if he has not given up attachment, he will be born', then it becomes a reply in batches.

(c) Question against question
If one asks ‘The seed came first or palm tree came first? Explain this', ‘Which seed and which palm tree? ' when he asks in return to clarify, then it becomes a question against question.

(d) To keep silent
If a question is asked, ‘The sky is old or new' no reply comes, then it becomes a silent mouth.