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The Philosophy of Bhaskara's Bhāṣya
previous karmas, the duties assigned to the particular stage of life (āśrama) to which the man belongs have to be performed; but his difference from the ordinary man is that, while the ordinary man thinks himself to be the agent or the doer of all actions, the wise man never thinks himself to be so. If a man could attain liberation during lifetime, then he might even know the minds of other people. Whether in mukti one becomes absolutely relationless (niḥsambandhaḥ), or whether one becomes omniscient and omnipotent (as Bhaskara himself urges), it is not possible for one to attain mukti during one's lifetime, so it is certain that so long as a man lives he must perform his duties and try to comprehend the nature of God and attend on Him through meditation, since these only can lead to liberation after death1.
1 Bhaskara-bhāṣya, 111. 4. 26.
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