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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Ātman and Moksa
continues whirling from the effect of the impulse previously given to it”! Thus, as the effects of the Karma of his previous birth are not exhausted, his bodily existence continues as a result of his prārabdha karma though his sancita karma (accumulated karma) is burnt by knowledge and no new karma is accumu. lated as ignorance is completely removed. So long his prārabdha karma continues its operation, his body, which has arisen out of it, continues to exist, and hence, he is a Jivanmukta. But when even his bodily frame drops and he is totally severed from any trace of physicality or the Praksti, he attains final 'bodiless deliverance' or 'videhamukti'. It is said in one Kārikā - "When separation of the informed soul from its corporeal frame at length takes place, and nature in respect of it ceases, then is absolute and final deliverance accomplished.”2 The final state is reached when all the three karmas are completely exhausted and when there is no more possibility of a relapse to the earthly life.
But what is the means of attaining such a state of liberation ? According to the Sámkhya, bondage is due to non-discrimination (afata) between the Purusa and the Prakịti, and it can be removed by a proper discrimination (fam) between the two. The Sāmkhya advocates philosophical knowledge of the reality as a remedy to effect liberation. It does not
1 is'varkrşņa : The Sānikhya Karikā 67 / p. 247. Tr. H.T. Colebrooke.
2 īs'varakršņa : The Samkhya Kārikā 68 / p. 250. Tr. H. T. Colebrooke.
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