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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Atman and MokỆa
Release, which consists in the soul's getting rid of the world, is the condition of supreme felicity, marked by perfect tranquillity and not tainted by any defilement. A person, by the true knowledge of the sixteen categories, is able to remove his misapprehensions. When this is done, his faults, viz., affection, aversion and stupidity, disappear. He is then no longer subject to any activity, and is consequently freed from transmigration and pains. This is the way in which his release is effected and supreme felicity secured.''! The Nyāya system agrees with the Vedānta in holding misapprehension or ignorance as the root cause of all evil in the world.
Vätsyāyana in his ommentary on the aphorisms of Gotama says -- that there are various kinds of misapprehension, like seeing the self in the non-selfish object, seeing happiness in pain, eternal in temporary, etc. Thus misapprehension consists in regarding the nature of things what it is not in actuality. It consists in attributing false qualities to things which do not possess them as their original qualities. It means some kind of distortion of the knowledge of things. Vātsyāyana in his commentary on the sūtras of Gotama further describes misapprehension or mithyā jñāna not simply as the absence of right philosophical knowledge but something positive something like infatuation out of which the world is generated. He writes -" The infatuation of the sense of 'I' or 'Ego' is to feel the sense of I-hood in
1 Vidyabhushana S.C. (Tr.): The Nyāya Sūtras of Gotama. Com. Sūua 1.
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