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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of pleasures. Such pleasures cannot bring to man the everlasting happiness and satisfaction. S. Radhakrishnan writes regarding this—"Pain, the cause of uneasiness, is the sign that the soul is not at rest with itself. The highest good is deliverance from pain and not the enjoyment of pleasure, for pleasure is always mixed up with pain."
All pain or suffering arises out of activity which becomes possible only when body exists. Thus, suffering is inevitably related to the birth of the physical body of an individual. S. Radhakrishnan expresses the relation of pain to activity and body in the following passage--" Pain (duhkha) is the result of birth (janma), which is the result of activity (pravịtti). All activity, good or bad, binds us to the chain of Samsāra and leads to some kind of birth, high or low.... The activity is due to the defects of aversion (dveşa ), attachment (rāga) and stupidity (moha). Aversion includes anger, envy, malignity, hatred and implacability. Attachment includes lust, avarice, avidity and covetousness. Stupidity includes misapprehension, suspicion, conceit and carelessness. Stupidity is the worst since it breeds aversion and attachment. Through these defects, we forget that there is nothing agreeable or disagreeable to the soul and come to like and dislike objects. The cause of these defects is false knowledge (mithyājñana) about the nature of the soul, pain, pleasure, etc.... So long as we act, we are under the sway of attachment and
1 Radhakrishnan S.: Indian Philosophy, Vol. II, p. 161. À 20
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