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dissolution of the body is neither an inevitable precondition nor an integral feature of Mukti."64
It will be found that those systems which do not believe that consciousness is an essential element of soul are also asatkāryavādins. Hence their logic is that since consciousness did not exist in the soul in its natural state, it cannot emerge in its final state. As constitutional freedom of the soul is a logical necessity, so is its power of omniscience. Hence, the doctrine of omniscience vis-a-vis mokşa rests or falls on the doctrine of Satkāryavāda.
64 Šāstri, S. Sūryanārāin, “ Jivan-Mukti”, The Philoso phical Quarterly,
Vol. XIV, No. 14, Jan. 1939, p. 313.
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