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
Atman and Mokama
by the social criticism and social disapproval of his acts. No man ever receives approval and appreciation from all men and in all times. He has to face criticism and rivalry from his fellow beings, and thus, never can he enjoy unbroken peace of mind and tranquillity of heart. The body also passes through varying physical states like age, and death, and because of the transitoriness of all kinds of pleasant experiences, he always experiences a sense of deprivation and suffering in different ways. Whatever satisfaction and happiness he gains is less than the perfect, and hence, he necessarily feels a sense of deprivation, imperfection, shortcomings and helplessness. The phenomenon of birth itself is the cause of sufferings. The Buddhists are right in saying that from the six organs results contact or spars'a with the external world, and from the contact arises sensations, Vedanā, which arouse corresponding desirgs or trisņā in the human mind. When desires are sepeatedly experienced and satisfied in certain ways, baturally the human mind comes to attach itself to the things in uniform ways. Attachment to objects leads to bondage and to suffering. The Buddhists believe in the doctrine of Karma and therefore, they explain a present event as an effect of the preceding event. The occurance of a birth is meant for the fulfilment of the results of his previous acts which are present in the form of subtle saṁskāras. Buddhism bolds, therefore, that complete annihilation of saīskāras leads to the eternal arrest of the emergence of consciousness which constitutes the life of
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