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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[tman and Mokỹa
definitely a state of happiness analogous to physical pleasures and mental joys, as mind and intellect cease to operate in it. It is something more than that and what it is, is difficult to describe positively, It is also doubtful whether it is a blissful state of mind; only negatively it can be certainly said that it is entirely free from any kind of pain. Max Müller seeks to understand the positive nature of the state of liberation in the following passage. He says - "All that can be said is 'that Purusa, freed from all Prākřtic bonds, whether ignorance or knowledge, joy or sorrow, would remain himself, would be what he alone can be, unrestricted, not interfered with, free and independent, and hence, in the highest sense of the word, perfect and happy in himself. This ineffable state of bliss has naturally shared the fate of similar conceptions such as the onenees with Brahman, the Nihs'reyasa or Non plus ultra, and the Nirvāṇa of the Buddhists."' But Kapila does not make it clear anywhere that the Samkhya state of liberation is one of unfading bliss and infinite joy. Kapila describes it simply by the word “Kaivalya," which means aloofness or isolation of the Purusa from the Prakřti. The word pain is vague and its connotation is indefinite. It is not restricted only to certain painful experiences and therefore, Max Müller tries to give the widest possible meaning implied by Kapila, in the word 'pain'. He therefore, further continues —"Kapila meant something else by pain. He seems to have felt what Schelling felt that sadness cleaves to all finite life; but that is very
? Max Müller : The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, p. 388.
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