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
Jainism
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The aim of Jain philosophy is the same as that of other systems of Indian Philosophy, and it is the attainment of Moksa or liberation. The Jīva in its samsāri state suffers various kinds of afflictions. It experiences pleasures as well as pains; but it never enjoys the unshakable peace for which it strives. All the earthly experiences which the Jiva feelsare momentary; they are not everlasting. As all the experiences come to an end now or then, in short or long periods, they cannot yield eternal peace and satisfaction. So long as one is bound to this earthly life he is under bondage; he is imprisoned in the fetters of attachments, so long as one comes to attach himself to objects, he has desires and due to those desires, Karmas or actions are performed, which in their turn bear their fruits which one has to experience in successive births. Thus, so long as one is bound by Karmas he keeps on revolving on the wheel of births and deaths, and remains eternally under bondage. The eternal peace and bliss for which he strives can never be attained so long as the operation of the Karma over the Jiva does not come to an end. Karma may be s'ubha (good) or As'ubha (evil). It may have pleasurable consequences or painful ones; but it can never terminate the earthly existence. On the contrary, the bonds of earthly life get strengthened by the repeatedly performed actions. It has already been stated that bondage is due to Mithyātava or subreption or delusion, which arises out of ignorance about the real nature of things. As the soul's real nature is hidden from us by ignorance, the ignorance which
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