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
The Upanişads
uishable from all others by the fact that its object is just the Self, which sustains the consciousness in question. 'Primary' Self-consciousness is an implicate, rather than a species of awareness, and as such must be attributed to all subjects of experience, whether persons or not."1 Thus, in real Self-consciousness the dualism of subject and object must end; or the difference between the subject and the object must vanish, It is said in the Upanisads that in the final experience of the Self all multiplicity comes to an end; the dualism of subject and object disappears, all becomes one; and one knows that he is all and all is he; that he is whithin all and all is whithin him -- he then realises 'I am the Brahman' (75 FEEH ) and all this is the Brahman (सर्व खल्विदं ब्रह्म).
Nothing in such an experience is alien or external to the Self. Whatever happens to be in the consciousness of the individual, appears then, only a vital part of himself. Everything then becomes as his own; nothing remains outside him which he can call as that which is not his. To be more precise it can be said he becomes everything. Everything is then coloured with his self-feeling. His Self grows wider and wider and envelopes everything in himself, feeling that everything is a part of his inmost Self. Everything good or bad, great or small, beautiful or ugly, shining or dark, love and hate, all such dualities lose their oppositions and occupy their own places in such an experience of identity. All oppositions are resolved and the Self shares none of the finite characteristics.
Bowmann A. A : A Sacramental Universe, p. 221 (pote).
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