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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
For Private And Personal
Atman and Mokşa
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unique experience and is incapable of being described and understood in terms of our earthly happiness. It is not a creation of something absolutely new, but it is our own realisation, the discovery of our own self. It is the discovery of our own Self that had been lost in the numerous allurements of the not-self. It is the search and recovery of our Self that was lost in the midst of the not-self. It is the unfoldment and visualisation of the Atman within us, instead of the incipid and soul-less realisation of the various faculties of man, namely the intellectual, the emotional and the moral. It does not consist in the harmonious development of all the faculties of human mind as the Eudaemonists suppose; it is on the contrary, a complete conversion or transmutation of the human soul into the divine Self. It is like being reborn in the divine life. This is possible only in a mystical way. It is a life of a different category, in which the individual no more belongs to the human kingdom. It is a complete transformation of the human soul into the divine. The soul attains its original state of perfect knowledge and bliss and hence, it naturally rises beyond all the earthly pleasures and earthly goods. It is not unnatural, that such an individual should look upon the world and the worldly life, as belonging to a lower plane, unworthy of being satisfied with. The earthly pleasures and allurements cease to tempt him then, and he no more feels like pursuing them. The world ceases to acquire any value for such an individual who attains self-realisation.
| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| 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 |