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 Moksa
body is a result of our misapprehension of the real nature of it and from it all evils are generated.'
That individual who regards his body his soul, and thinks that his life comes to an end with the destruction of his body always remains replete with desires and is prompted to undertake activities by them. Those activities generate good or bad Karma or effects which ultimately decide the type of body that he will be having in the succeeding birth. Thus, the very generation of the physical organism becomes the root cause of all suffering. A man performs yarious activities so long as he is under the spell of his misapprehension that he is the body which enjoys pleasures and suffers the pains. But the moment he discriminates himself from his body he apprehends the real nature of suffering and its cause. Gotama says in his Sūtra that “The body is produced as the fruit of our previous deeds ( deserts ).''? The union of the parents is only accessory or auxiliary to the production of the body. The real cause of the production of the body, therefore, lies in the effects of the acts of the past life of an individual. As are the acts, so is the nature of the begotten body. Gotama holds the desert responsible for the production of the body. He says --"Desert is the cause not only of the production of the body but also of its conjunction with a soul."3 A mere body without
1 Sarvadars'anasangraha, p. 246. ... a Vidyabhushana S.C. : The Nyāya Sūtras of Gotama, Sutra 3.2 - 64.
3 Ibid. Sūtra 3.2.70. p. 105,
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