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
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It is a spiritual attainment. Such an individual may be living in this world, but no more does he remain of this world. The world becomes incapable of influencing him either favourably or unfavourably. The worldly objects and forces lose their power to please him or displease him. The world becomes impotent to disturb his inward quiet which is stable and everlasting. He assumes equanimity towards all; because he finds himself everywhere. He lives then in the mystical trance of his own Self, where nothing else has an access. He is lost in his own contemplation. The Chandogya Upanisad says “Verily, he who sees this, who thinks this, who understands this, who has pleasure in the Soul, who has delight in the Soul, who has intercourse with the Soul ( 317AfatihaT SHAYT TA19:) who has bliss in the Soul -- he is autonomous (FETE): he has unlimited freedom in all worlds. But they who know otherwise than this are heteronomous (anya-rājan ); they have perishable worlds; in all worids they have no freedom." It is then the eternal enjoyment of the Self with itself. The mukta becomes similar to the Aristotelian God — who is the matterless form - and is ever lost in his own contemplation. He thus acts only as "a witness, an observer, a thinker" of the paraphernalia of the universe, but he never acts as a participant in it. He remains above all, being untouched by any of the happenings of the world, howsoever powerful. He rests in his own magnanimity. He is then eternally free. He enjoys an unshakable
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