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
Sāåkhya
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principle of the plurality of the Purusas when on the metaphysical grounds no soul can be differentiated from another because of the absence of any internal distinguishing feature in it. One soul or Puruşa comes to be distinguished from another individual soul from the body it occupies. The plurality of the individual souls is thus determined from the different bodies and sense organs with which they come to be associated. S. Radhakrishnan says -- "The Jiva is the self distinguished by the conjunction of the senses and limited by the body."! Thus, the particularization of the soul is dependent on the separate bodies and senses with which the soul comes to attach itself. A. B. Keith says-- "The principle of individuation can only be understood as the principle through the action of which the several spirits become endowed each with a separate substratum which results in the appearance of human individuals.''3 The principle of individuation is thus extraneous, and it consists in the various adjuncts with which the soul comes to be associated in accordance with its desert. This point is made quite clear by Vasudev Shastri Abhyankar in his commentary on the Sāråkhya system in the following way—all the particularities that are found in the individual souls are caused by their associations with the adjuncts like the pradhana; they are only apparent and adjunctival (aupādhika ituirera). All particularities or differences (vies'sa) are
1 Radhakrishnan S. : Ingian Philosophy, Vol. II, p. 284. 2 Keith A. B. : The Samkhya System, p. 90.
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