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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Jayanta Bhatta states in his Nyāya Manjari that liberation is to be achieved by the complete eradication of all the nine qualities of the self, i.e., intelligence (buddhi), pleasure (sukha), pain (duhkha), desire (icchā), hatred (dveșa), effort (prayatna), the impressions of merit (dharma)and demerit (adharma)."'! In a verse, further he clearly states that so long as all the qualities like passions, etc., of the self are not eradicated, the entire destruction of pain cannot be imagined."? Jayanta Bhatta is justified in emphasizing the need of the eradication of the qualities of the self which are psychological, and bondage consists essentially in the experience of them. If bondage is not felt or experienced, then all the external material powerful chains and restrictions will be incapable to put a person into bondage. Bondage implies the mental experience or the sense of being bound in certain limitations. The qualities of the self are essentially psychological, and unless the experience of bondage is completely wiped off from the mind, liberation or emancipation will not be felt, and if it be not felt it is as good as bondage. Jayanta Bhatta thus, gives quite an appropriate description of the state of liberation. These mental ties or bondage can be broken entirely only by enlightenment, or by proper apprehension of the nature of the soul and the reality. The path to liberation lies through the philosophical understanding of the
1 Jayanta Bhatta : Nyāya Manjari, p. 508. ; Ibid. p. 508-16THOUT: go afete HICH: 1
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