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 Mokpa
Then whereby and whom would one taste ? Then whereby and to whom would one speak? Then whereby and whom would one hear ? Then whereby and whom would one think? Whereby and whom would one touch? Then whereby and whom would one understand ? Whereby would one understand him by means of whom one understands this All ?" Thus the subject and object are relative terms; the one exists only in the presence of the other, and for the other; neither can exist by itself. When such an experience of the perfect unity and identity is attained, naturally the subject and the object, the knower and known, the experiencer and the experienced these distinctions are lost, not because they are annihilated but because they are transcended. They are then transmuted and live in identity with their inner Self. The Kausitaki Upanisad says —." If there were no objects, there would be no subjects; and if there were no subjects, there would be no objects. For on either side alone nothing would be achieved."2 Similar thought is expressed also in the Maitrāya i Upanisad. It distinguishes between two kinds of knowl. edge-(i) that one in which there is a duality of subject and object, and (ii) that which is free from duality and is an intuitive experience of identity.3 Yājñavalkya, while describing the exact condition of the individual soul's union with the Supreme one, makes it clear by taking an illustration of salt and
1 Ibid. 4.5.15. ? Kauşit. Up. 3.8.
Maitrāyani Up. 6.7,
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