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 Moksa
tion by assuming different births for which it is suited. "(The soul is) the substratum of merit and demerit. It is perceived on account of possessing special qualities. The substratum of merit and demerit. The word 'soul' is to be supplied. (It is the substratum), because if the body be the substratum of these, then the results of actions done by a particular body cannot be experienced by another body."
The results of good and bad actions come to be attached to the soul, and in order to reap their fruits by experiencing them the soul has to pass from one physical body to another physical body, after the former is destroyed. The cause of transinigration is the adrsta or the unseen Karma force, and it becomes possible because of the soul that endures through many such births. The existence of an imperishable and permanent soul has to be admitted on the moral grounds. The continuity of births cannot be explained in the absence of such a transmigrating soul. If the experiencer of the consequences of the actions is not the same as the doer, there will occur the fallacy of ( pasure ) kľtapraņās'a and (Barma) akstābhyāgama. There will be complete absence of the connection between good actions and good results; bad actions and bad results. Goodness and badness of actions will lose their value because good or bad consequences may follow indiscriminately. There will remain, thus, no consistency between actions and their consequences and
1 Madhavānanda (Swami) (Tr.) : Bhāsa Pariccheda, Sūtra 49, p. 78.
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