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 MokẸa
In such experience the individual rises to a higher state which is one of pure identity. The liberated individual transcends all differences, dualities and relativities and begins to look upon everything as his own. In his eyes everything is good because it is his. Yājñavalkya in the BỊh. Upanişad says — "Therefore, having this knowledge, having become calm, subdued, quiet, patiently enduring, and collected, one sees the soul just in the soul. One sees everything as Soul. Evil does not overcome him; he overcomes all evil. Evil does not burn him; he burns all evil. Free from evil, free from impurity, free from doubt, he becomes the Brahman."' It is an experience of complete homogeneity in which there remains not a trace of any other heterogeneous element of otherness. It is a state of purity and distinctionlessness. Yājñavalkya further describes such a final state of seit-rcalisation, in the following words: "It is a mass of salt, without inside, without outside, entirely a mass of taste, even so, verily is this Soul, without inside, without outside, entirely a mass of knowledge."? Thus the individual loses his sense of separate individuality. Everywhere he finds himself as if he fills everything, as if he becomes all-pervasive and one with the Reality. As the very category of distinctions or differences disappears, there remains no separativeness of things; all things are experienced as one in their essence. All the apparent distinctions are melted away and what remains behind is himself alone. Everything then appears as one and the same
I BỊh. Up. 4.4.23. 2 Bșh. Up. 4.5.13.
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