341. If any Sramanas thus preach approving such a Sankhya doctrine, then according to them prakriti (karmic material becomes the agent and all the souls would be inactive. On the other hand, if you maintain, "my soul transforms itself by itself", this opinion of yours is wrong.

342. In the scripture, the soul is described to be eternal and of immeasurable extension. Hence, of its own accord, it is incapable of increasing or decreasing (its spatial form).

343. Know ye: that the soul, from the point of view of extension, is really co-extensive with the universe. Therefore, how is this eternal substance caused to assume decreased or increased spatial form.

344.It is accepted that the conscious principal remains of the nature of knowledge. Therefore, the Self, of its own accord, does not transform itself by itself.