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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Ātman and Mokka
its essential nature. It is caused by wrong ascription of qualities to the soul, in supposing the soul to be that which it is not in reality at all. The Sarvadars'anasangraha states that bondage arises out of influx of the Karmic matter into the soul because of wrong-perception (mithyadarsana). The soul in its essential nature is free and does not partake either in bodily pleasure or in pain. It is free from such modifications in its real state. It is said by Nahar and Ghosh -- "It is in reality neither fettered nor tainted with any of the blemishes; neither it is in reality the agent of any deed nor the enjoyer of any fruits thereof. But by subreption it becomes an object to itself through the other media of organism and senses and introspection and thereby appears as the Jīva Bhoktā and Kartă. The energy is provided by the mind stuff which is bereft of intelligence and intellectuality. "2 The same authors make it clear further by saying that this subreption (mithyātva) is itself Ajñāna, and that it can be removed not by good Karma or any kind of Karma, since Karma can generate only Karma and nothing else. Jainism shares the view of the other Indian Philosophical systems that the root cause of bondage and misery is ignorance, nescience or subreption, and that one can attain deliverance from this bondage by acquiring real knowledge of the soul. That self-realization is the path of liberation; that Moksa can be attained by right knowledge of the soul.
1 Sarvadars'anasngraha, p. 75. 2 Nahar and Ghosh : An Epitome of Jainism, p. 548. 3 Ibid. p. 616.
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