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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Atmap and Mokpa
objects except the soal are passive or inert in themselves. Movement has to be caused in them from without. It is stated in the Nyāya Sūtras —"The regularity and irregularity of possession demarcate the soul and matter.''! The sense of 'I' and 'my' is possessed only by intelligent beings, and never by any thing which is material and unintelligent. The power to voluntary action is possessed only by the immaterial or spiritual substance. Vidyabhushana in his commentary on the above mentioned Sūtra says —"A material thing is by nature inactive but becomes endowed with activity when it is moved by a conscious agent.”? It is also said in the commentary of the Nyāya Sūtras which is commented by Vatsyāyana that "the mind is not independent but it is governed by the conscious agent; hence attributes like desires, etc., do not belong to it. As it is governed by other agent it does not possess any independence." Thus it is the contention of the Nyāya system that the soul acts as the universal agent of all the actions and it uses all the material things as instrumental to it. It is also stated in the Bhisā Pariccheda — "The soul is the inspirer of the organs, etc.,.... for an instrument requires an agent."
1. Vidyabhushana S. C. (Tr.): The Nyā ya Sutras of Gotama, Sūtra 115, p. 95.
8 Ibid.
3 Vātsyāyapa (Com.) (Edited by Vis'vanātha ): Nya ya Sūtras, p. 256.
4 Mādhavānanda (Swami): Bhāsā Pariccheda, Sūtra 47.
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