Spiritual Awakening and other Essays

SR No.: 006930
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 224
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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constitutes right faith. Yogīndu says that solitarily Ātman is Samyagdarsan.39 Notwithstanding this distinction they believe in something divine to be mystically realized. Transcendental awakening is acceptable to all the three.
After the faith has been imbibed, knowledge and conduct are to be made the objects of one's own pursuit. According to the Mundaka Upanişad, the Atman which is inside the body which is radiant and pure, is capable of being invariably accomplished by right knowledge, truth, austerity, and chastity.40 Besides, It may be seen by those who have destroyed all blemishes, and all desires.! Mere intellectual knowledge leads nowhere. The Katha Upanişad recognizes that the self can be reached neither by eloquent discourse nor by subtle intellect, nor by much learning. 42 He who has not ceased from doing evil, whose mind is not calm and equipoised cannot hope to attain the self inspite of his being equipped with the intellect of deep penetration.43 The Mundaka Upanişad points out that the self cannot be realized by a man without potency, or with inertia or errors in the seeking, or by improper austerity. 44
In accordance with the Gītā those who have the eye of wisdom see the indwelling soul.45 Three types of knowledge have been recognized. The Sāttvika knowledge witnesses one immutable being in all existence. To distinguish it from the Rājas, one which sees multiplicity of beings and from the Tāmas one which clings to one single effect as if it were the whole. 46 The foremost one is right knowledge according to the Gītā. Sublime height cannot be attained by the undisciplined."7 The evil doers, robbed by illusion, partaking of the nature of demons, low in the human scale cannot reach the supreme; while tranquility is realized by those who have renounced all desires, and who are free form attachment,
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