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
Nyāya Vais'eşika
299
Moksa-मोक्ष In the beginning it is said that the inquiry is undertaken for the right understanding of the world and life. The very purpose of the study of the world is the attainment of liberation The philosophical inquiry is guided by the desire to attain liberation. It is said that the motive and end of philosophical understanding of the world is liberation. It is said in the Sarvadars'anasangraha “Indeed, liberation (Nihs'réyas fa:97) occurs because of philosophical thinking."! It is believed by these systems that the miseries of the present life are caused by false knowledge of the world and the remedy to become free from the sufferings of this life lies in wiping away the false knowledge by the right knowledge of the world. Gotama says in his famous a phorism -- "Pain, birth, activity, faults and misapprehension, on the successive annihilation of these in the reverse order, there follows release." It clearly traces misapprehension or false knowledge as the root cause of all the sufferings. Misapprehension is the final cause of sufferings and not its immediate cause. There is a long casual chain in which misapprehension acts as the final or the first cause, and at the end comes pain or suffering. In between the two there are many intermediate causes in the series. Vidyābhūsaņa says in his commentary on the above sūtra--"Misapprehension, faults, activity, birth and pain, these in their uninterrupted course constitute the world'.?
1 Sarvadars'anasangraha, p. 246.
* Vidyabhushana S. C. (Tr.): The Nyāya Sutras of Gotama. Sutra 1.2.
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