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
of perfection, and as there is nothing wanting, it is state of blissfulness. Eternal peace and joy rule there. The quantity of bliss is immeasurable and indescribable. A. B. Keith says -"The Spirit in this condition is without desire and free from all pain; it is unaffected by good, unaffected by evil, the father ceases to be father, the mother mother, the worlds worlds, the gods gods. There is no interruption of seeing of seeing, though the spirit does not: we have in fact the condition of a pure objectless knowing subject, continuing in this condition. The Soul now passes from the 72000 veins in which it has moved during dreamless sleep, and rests in the paricardium in supreme bliss, like a great king or Brahman."! About the bliss enjoyed by the jīva in this state Prof. R. D. Ranade says - "If, in short, desirelessness is to constitute the highest bliss, there is no meaning in saying that the highest good could be measured in terms of the unit of physical good. In any case, it does not seem possible that the spiritual good can be of the same kind as physical good; the two are probably incommensurate, differing, not in degree but in kind. The bliss of the Sage, who has realised Brahman cannot be measured in terms of the physical happiness of any beings whatsoever, however, highly placed or however divine
they may be. The bliss of self-realisation is entirely of its own kind, absolutely sui generis."? Thus it is a
1 Keith A. B : The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda - and Upanishads, Vol. II, p. 569.
Ranade R. D.: A Constructive Survey of the Upanishads, p. 301.
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