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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Atman and Moka
teleology in the universe; if there is any system and order it is automatic and unplanned or unanticipated, and lastly, the orderly functioning of nature is carried on by the Kamma energy. Teleologically also, the existence of a kind and perfect God cannot be established, because the world in which we live, is imperfect, and full of sufferings. God, being all-kind, cannot inflict suffering on his own creations, or he must be powerless to control the evil, which is against his nature of being omnipotent. God or a sentient immutable and perfect Self cannot be the author of this imperfect world. All such interpretations, thus, remain true only on human level. S. Radhakrishnan says"It is man's anthropomorphism that makes him look upon the cosmic process as a sort of human activity. Nature obeys no laws imposed from without. We have only necessities in nature."! Therefore, Buddhism does not admit the existence of the Self as a necessity to explain the teleological nature of the various physical, psychological and the moral activities. There is no willed teleology; more over, if there are any elements of teleology in it, they are simply inherent in an unwilled form. There is no conscious and purposive guidance of the activities of the universe by any spiritual principle.
Buddhism denies the existence of the Self as living by itself. The Self does not possess any nature of itself. The Self is an illusion caused by the various mental and physical states when combined in a certain pattern, discharging a particular kind of
1 Radhakrishnan S. : Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, p. 456.
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