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
realised the Absolute in himself.”! His view can be justified from the many passages that occur in the various Upanişads like the Katha, Chandogya, the Mundaka, Brhadaranyaka. All these passages describe the state of the Ātman as beyond the good and the bad, virtue and vice, and they contend that the moral agent goes beyond the reach of good and bad, when and only so far as he has attained to likeness with, or becomes merged in, the Ātman, who is himself, metaphysically speaking, beyond the reach of good and bad. Ranade writes about it-“The real meaning of Revelation seems to the present writer to be not any external message delivered to man from without, but a divine afflatus springing from within, the result of inspiration through god. intoxication." .: A. B. Keith, looks at this state of emancipation of the individual soul from a different point of view. He does not quite concur in thinking that the state of emancipation is the state of perfection of the individual and in it he completely loses his separate individuality and he looks upon emancipation as a reward of knowledge. It seems from the above remarks of Keith that the individual seeks immortality by the union of the soul with the Self only as a reward of knowledge; the implication of
1 Ranade R. D.: A Constructive Survey of the Upanishads, p. 306.
2 Ibid. p. 9.
3 Keith A. B. : The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda, Vol. II, p. 583.
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