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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its real original nature of bliss and knowledge. During the state of emancipation the soul gets completely detached from the Karma.
Jainism, thus, pictures the state of Moksa not as something which is created anew by human efforts; but it is something like the recovering of a lost object. Moksa according to Jainism means self-finding; it consists in recovering one's consciousness of soul which had been forgotten or had become obscure due to delusion or subreption (Mithyātva ). It consists in regaining one's lost self. In Moksa the soul enjoys in its perfection its original blissful and omniscient state. It is a kind of self-rule where everything is pervaded and governed by one's own soul. Nahar and Ghosh describe it as "For the Jains it is a kind of swarajya, self rule, a state of autonomy, pure and simple, which every jiva instinctively aspires after to realize by tearing asunder the veil or the covering in and through the process of which the Ideal is realised and complete deliverance from the veil and covering of Karma is called moksa." It is a kind of illumination where the soul is in its eternal purity. In this state the flame of the soul burns steadily without flickering and the Karma particles no more dare to touch it. The light of the knowledge of soul dispels the darkness of ignorance and delusion. It is a state of eternal rest and bliss. Thus, when moksa is attained the possibility of rebirth is completely brought to an end. One who attains to moksa becomes a Siddha, a perfected
1 Nahar and Ghosh : An Epitome of Jainism, p. 609.
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