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
307
cycle of birth, activities, acquisition of Karma, death, next birth and death forms the ever revolving wheel of Samsāra. And liberation means getting oneself freed from such ever revolving wheel of life. It consists in stopping for ever the wheel by eliminating the changes of the formation of a new body by exhausting the previous Karma (sañcita karma) and by not accumulating any new Karma that would lead to a further birth. It mainly consists in freeing oneself from pain. Gotama says in his Sūtra that liberation means complete freedom from pain and suffering.' Gotama says further in his next Sūtra that the state of release is absolutely free from distress as that of dreamless sleep. The Sūtra runs as follows —"As there is no distress in a person who is sound asleep and sees no dream, so there is no association of troubles in one who attains release." Here the term distress or Kles'a is used in the sense of moral depravity according to the Nyāya.
Commenting upon the Sūtra of Gotama that states that there is absence of a body in our release Vidyabhusnana says — "Our merits and demerits having already been exhausted, we cannot get a body after we have attained release. Release is the perfect freedom from all sufferings; it consists in a complete destruction of all the seeds and seats of suffering."
1 Vātsyāyana (Com.): The Gotama Nyāya Sūtrani, Sutra 22–37.
a Vidyabhusbapa S. C. (Tr.): The Nyāya Sutras of Gotama, Sutra 4163.
8 Ibid. Sūtra 45, p. 138.
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