tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Moksa
the process of introspection. The Self is endowed with the Supreme Power of dichotomising himself. The empirical conditions of knowledge are inapplicable to the Self. The Self can divide himself into the knower and the known. It is wonderful how Kant should have posited the "I am I” as the supreme metaphysical category, which he called the transcendental original and synthetic unity of apperception, and yet should have denied the reality of the corresponding psychological process of introspection. The answer of Yājõavalkya is that Self-consciousness is possible, and is not only possible but alone real."! Thus the Self, that is all-pervading, manifests itself in every act of comprehension, either in perception, reflection, contemplation or intuition. Every act of knowledge is necessarily accompanied by the revelation of the Self. The Self acts as the revealer of objects that are known, and in that process reveals itself, automatically. Thus, consciousness is inseparable from the Self, which is its originator, nay, consciousness and Self are synonymous. A. A. Bowmann writes about the relation of consciousness to the Self, ". .. it is impossible to be conscious at all and not at the same time to experience the Self as subject. It is in this sense that the principle all consciousness is Selfconsciousness', is to be understood." ? Clarifying the idea of Self-consciousness, Bowmann again says "..it is a special way of being conscious, disting
Ranade R. D.: A Constructive Survey of the Upanishads, p. 274.
Bowmann A. A.: Sacramental Universe, p. 260.
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