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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Ātmap and Moliga
is absolutely new, but it means the gradual unfoldment of itself that is present in an unmanifest form.
It is a passage from the unmanifest to the manifest. : The manifest is a clearer expression of the unmanifest (avyakta). According to Satkāryavāda, the effect is an actual transformation (pariņāma) of the cause; the cause though in a changed form, is itself actually the effect. The effect is the cause in a changed form. As said in the above Kārika, the Praksti acts as the first and the final cause of the whole material world; it is the producer of all but is the production of no other thing. It is beginningless, but it of course, acts as the source of other things. It is the effect (fagfa) of no other thing though it is the final cause of everything. The Spirit is neither the producer nor the product. It is that which is not at all understandable in terms of any material form. The Praksti is the producer of the twenty-four evolutes and is itself uncreated; but the Spirit is neither a product nor a producer. It stands by itself, uncreated and endless. It is eternal and imperceptible. Vācaspati Mis'ra in his commentary describes the basic-primeval matter (Müla Prakrti) as "that which is no effect or transformation of any other thing. Praksti is that which does some activity and the state of equilibrium of the three attributes Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, is known as avikști (state of being not an effect or transformation).” It is the ultimate substance of all material things. Whatever has physical and material
1.Mis'ra Vācaspati (Com.): The Tattva Kaumudi, Com. on Sūtra 3. Tr. Ganganath Jha.
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