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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Atman and Moka
self and the world. Proper philosophical apprehension of the self and nature acts as an antidote against misapprehension (inithyajñāna) which is the root cause of all evil and pain. H. T. Colebrooke describes the process of the attainment of liberation in the following passage - “This liberation from ill is attained by soul, acquainted with truth (tatva), by means of holy science, diverted of passion through knowledge of the evil incident to objects; meditating on itself; and, by the maturity of self-knowledge, making its own essence present; relieved from impediments; not earning fresh merit or demerit by deed done with desire; discerning the previous burden of merit or demerit, by devout contemplation; and acquitting it through compressed endurance of its fruits; and thus (previous acts being annulled, and present body departed and no future body accruing), there is no further connexion with the various sorts of ill, since there is no cause for them. This, then, is prevention of pain of every sort; it is deliverance and beatitude."! This is in general the broad idea of the way prescribed by the Nyaya System for the attainment of liberation.
Vätsyāyana also describes in his commentary the stages of the attainment of liberation and, shows the causal link of the various factors that lead to final liberation. He writes --"When the misapprehen sion (mithyājñāna) disappears, because of its disappearance faults (doşa ) also disappear, with the
1 Colebrooke H. T. : Essays on the Religion and Philosophy of the Hindus, p. 184.
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