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
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Ātmap and Moksa
mind. It is, therefore, necessary according to the Upanisads, first to free the mind from the influence of the sense organs. The Upanișadic philosophers seem to lay more stress on the necessity of withdrawal of the sense organs and the mind from the external world; they seem to emphasize the necessity of going deeper into the heart of Reality by not being allured by the objects of sense and not being deluded by the enormous changing variety of nature. A little serious reflection enables us to infer the existence of the ground of change which remains unchanged in spite of the unceasing changes going on in it. For that we have to rise above the knowledge given by sense organs. Sense organs cease to be the ultimate source of knowledge. Abstract thinking becomes necessary for inferring the existence of the inner unchanging and stable ground of existence. Thus serious thinking becomes of a very great help for taking us to the real nature of the reality. Such serious thinking requires a stern control on the sense organs and on the lustfulness of the inind. It requires a high degree of concentration on the thinking of the nature of this permanent ground of existence. Thus curbing the activities of all the sense organs and of the mind and thus directing their energies towards the knowledge of the Reality becomes a prime necessity. Thus liberation presupposes a stern control on the senses and a consequent withdrawal from the external world and, simultaneously concentration on the inner identical, immutable, qualityless and essential nature of the ultimate
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