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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Ātman and Moksa
aversion and cannot attain the highest good." The nature of activity and attachment and pain remains the same in spite of the nature of objects with which they develop their relations. S. Radhakrishnan says -"The hatred of pain is still hatred and the attachment to pleasure is still attachment and, so long as these are operative, the highest good is beyond our reach." It becomes evident from this passage that the root cause of all evil is the existence of the physical body of an individual, which itself is generated as a result of one's activities in the past birth. The body and activities are thus the mutual causes of each other, and they form a vicious circle. Gotama Sūtra itself states - "Birth is a pain because it is connected with various distresses."'3 In his commentary on the above Sūtra, S. C. Vidyabhushana writes -"Birth is stated to be a pain because it signifies our connections with the body, the senses and the intellect which bring us various distresses. The body is the abode in which pain resides, the senses are the instruments by which pain is experienced and the intellect is the agent which produces in us the feeling of pain. Our birth as connected with the body, the senses and the intellect is necessarily a source of pain."
To live means to act in some way, because life itself means the capacity to act. The continuous
1 Radhakrishnan S. : Indian Philosophy, Vol. II. p. 162. 2 Ibid. pp. 162, 163, 3 Vidyabhushana S.C. (Tr.): The Nyaya Sutras of Gotama. * Ibid. Sūtra 4.1.55, p. 122.
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