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go up to Liberation. Others must for ever remain here below, reaching almost Godhood, but never quite attaining it.
“Liberation has a beginning and an end therefore also.”-Liberation means Perfection, 10 i.e., Perfect knowledge and Perfect Power. The Liberated soul can be neither ignorant nor weak. Therefore once free it is always free from Karmas.
In fine, beginning and an end are not necessarily correlative. They do not imply and connote each other. There are things which have a beginning and no end, e.g., our moustache, a woman's breast etc., have a beginning but no end. Death is no end, for the status quo ante is not restored. Things which have no beginning, but an end may be exemplified by the whiteness of milk, which has no beginning but may be destroyed by pouring a glass of milk in a ton of red colour.
Doubt 3. Liberation means giving up desires, but the desire of getting liberation also means non-Liberation. Therefore there can be no Liberation.
It is true Liberation means the cessation of ail desires. Desire implies imperfection.
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