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
Sâmkhya
desists from acting when her part is finished, so nature, having exhibited itself to soul, in the various characters of intellect, egotism, the rudiments, senses, and elements desists." |
• The Samkhya has compared Praksti with a dancer and has shown that when Praksti ceases to operate or it retires, the Purusa also ceases to perceive her, and hence it becomes totally free from the empirical life. When the Purusa comes to realise the real nature of itself by contrasting itself with Prakřti it ceases to enter into any more new connection with it. Once Prakști ceases to exhibit itself to the Puruşa it never returns again to the Purusa. Once the Purusa is released from the bondage of the Prakịti, it becomes eternally free with no fear of relapse to the phenomenal life. In another Kārikā it is further said — “Nothing is more modest than Nature, such is my conviction; once aware of having been seen she does not again expose herself to the view of the spirit.”? Vācaspati Misra clarifies it further in his commentary—“By modesty here is meant extreme delicacy (of manners), the unbearability to suffer exposure to the Purusa's view. If a well-bred lady, who is not to be seen even by the sun, with her eyes cast down happens to have her body uncovered by chance and thus seen by a stranger, she tries to hide herself in such a way as
1 The Sankhya Kärikā of Ts'varakļşņa, p. 229. Tr. H. T. Colebrooke.
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