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
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objects which are devoid of self. Egoism (a hamkāra) consists in seeing in the selfless or material things our ego." The misapprehension consists in ascribing the non-spiritual or material things (anātma) the sense of egohood. Those things which are not a part of our inner self are wrongly supposed to be a part of our self. We falsely indentify ourselves with body, senses, manas, buddhi and regard that their sufferings also are our sufferings. We attach ourselves inseparably to them and feel pleased or pained by the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of them. We confuse our soul with the non-spiritual objects. The two are entirely different from each other. The soul can never be like the soulless or material object. They are categorically different from each other. When we include our body or mind in the idea of our 'soul' naturally, we identify ourselves with them, and as they are liable to frequent disappointments and sufferings we also suffer. Here the suffering is mistaken. In fact suffering cannot belong to our innermost self.
Kesavamisra says that misapprehension means infatuation or delusion; it consists in the distortion of things i. e. in taking things to be what they are not in actuality; or to take things different from what they are.' Our attachment to body and the sense organs leads us to infatuation. It is also stated in the Sarvadars'anasangralia that our attachment to the 1 Vātsyāyana (Com.): Nyāya Sūtras by Gotama (Sanskrit),
मिथ्याज्ञानं व खलु मोहः । 2 Missra Kes'ava --- Tarkabhāsā, p. 92.
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