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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Upanişads
Reality. The Mundakopanisad says --"By truthfulness, indeed, by penance, right knowledge, and abstinence must that self be gained.”! The individual needs to devote himself body and mind, to the search of this inner principle. The individual not only requires to exercise adequate control over his body and mind, to withdraw his senses from the objects of enjoyment, to avoid every contact with lustful objects, but also requires to cultivate a good and sound moral character. The individual is also to practise morally suitable life that purifies his heart by enabling him to be more and more selfless. The practice of moral virtues helps the individual to widen the experience of the personality by passing from egoism to altruism. The moral virtues help the individual to actually experience that of which he is already intellectually convinced. For understanding the real nature of the ultimate Reality, the individual requires to rise above his empirical self, to forget his likes and dislikes, to overcome his various prejudices and grudges, to conquer the passions like lust, anger, fear, greed, to prepare the mind to think in the most impartial terms just to understand the Reality in the scientific way. It means that the individual needs the purification of his body and mind. When it is done and when the individual understands properly the nature of the Ātman, he strives to remove all the impediments -- physical or mental, from the path of knowledge. He, thus, purifies his physical, mental and intellectual canals and prepares
1 Mundaka Up. 3.1.5.
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| 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 |