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
Sāmkhya
335
or the state of experience, i.e., pleasure or pain. The term 'bhoktrbhāva' does not mean "visibility' as some interpreters think, but it means the phenomenon of 'experience in the broadest sense.
It is, of course, made clear by is'varakļşņa in his Kārika, that though the Purusa or the soul is the experiencer, and the objects of experience imply its existence, the objects of experience are not created by it, nor are they willed by it. While proving that God's existence is not necessary to explain the world the Samkhya states that the appropriate adjustment between the objects of experience and the subject of them is natural and unwilled. The Prakrti and its evolutes are not purposely created for the gratification of the soul nor are they willed by the souls. They are naturally adjusted without any external agent. It is clearly stated in the following Kārikā -—“As it is a function of milk, an unintelligent (substance to nourish the calf, so it is the office of the chief (principles to liberate the soul)."'1 From this verse follows that the adjustment between the Praksti and the Purusa or the experienced and the experiencer is natural, and is not willed by anybody, neither by God nor by the Puruşa although the Puruşa is endowed with the capacity to experience either pleasure or pain accruing from the operations of the Praksti.
1 īs' varkļşņa : Samkhya Karikā — 57–227. Tr, H. T. Colebrooke.
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