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
Sārakhya
mātras and the eleven organs into the Ahamkāra, the Ahamakāra in the Buddhi and the Buddhi into the unmanifest (avyakta ). The whole world ultimately loses itself into the first primordial matter, the Praksti or undeveloped, being eternal, remains. Max Müller says --" The undeveloped is nowhere dissolved, because it was never evolved out of anything." The Praksti and the Puruşa are uncaused as they are ultimate realities.
It is said that the study of the Sāråkhya philosophy is motivated by the desire of the attainment of liberation from the three kinds of pain; the adhyatmika, the adhibhautika and the ādhidaivika. The Tattva Samäsa mentions the three kinds of duḥkha or pain in the following passage --"Adhyātmika is pain arising from the body, whether produced by wind, bile, or phlegm, etc., and from the mind (Manas), such as is due to desire, anger, greed, folly, envy, separation from what is liked, union with what is disliked, etc., Ādhibhautika is pain that arises from other living beings, such as thieves, cattle, wild beasts, etc., Adhidaivika is pain that is caused by divine agents, as pain arising from cold, heat, wind, rain, thunderbolt, etc., all under the direction of the Vedic Devas." The drift of the worldly life is thus directed towards the removal of all these pains and sufferings from the lives of the souls. In fact, the pain can occur only to those who have the capacity to feel it. Nothing else but the souls are conscient or sentient; the suffering of wordly life is experienced
1 Max Müller : The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, p. 360.
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