________________
MOKSHA OR EMANCIPATION.
as it does from the utter indifference to matters worldly, Purusasya nirlepa kaivalyan.
The Pratyabhignanis interprete it as the realisation of the perfection of the soul, Purndtmd labhah.
The Sarvagnas find it in the eternal continuum of the feeling of the highest felicity-nitya niratishaya sukha bodhah.
The Mayavadins say it to be manifest on the removal of the error of one's having a separate existence as a particle of the Supreme Being-Brahmånsika sivasya mithyaj nâna nivritti. - Such are the conceptions of the Highest Good which the different schools of thought ultimately aim at. A comparative study of the nature of these conceptions will make it clear that the Jain conception of the same gives us but a clear idea as to what a mumukshin soul really strives and struggle for. It is a kind of swaraj, self-rule, a state of autonomy, pure and simple, which every siva instinctiveiy aspires after to realize by tearing assunder the veil or the covering in and through the process of which the Ideal is Realised. In the
607
