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 Mokşa
soul is different from the body, and they think that, if this belief in the body as our own is once surrendered, our sufferings, which always reach us through the body, will cease by themselves.” Thus, according to the Nyāya Vais esika systems the knowledge of the fundamental categories of existence and the basic elements of the world is necessary for the attainment of liberation. The real understanding of the nature and origin of the things with which we falsely identify ourselves, and by the sufferings of which we suffer, removes from our mind the uncalled for grief and the sense of depravity which make life miserable and unbearable.
It is not sufficient according to the Nyāya Vais'eșika systems, to break contact with an existing body. The physical body disappears with the destruction of the world (Pralaya) also, but therefore, it does not become equivalent to the state of liberation for the very simple reason that there is every possibility of its retracing to the original condition of the worldly life from the state of Pralaya. The possibilities of returning back of the soul to the worldly life have not completely exhuasted themselves, but they remain dormant, ready to actualise at any opportune moment; while liberation means complete negation and exhaustion of such possibilities of returning of the soul to the life of the world. The liberated soul becomes free eternally not to relapse into its original state. It is liberated for ever as it has exhausted all his accumulated Karma
1 Max Müller : The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, p. 487.
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