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
merely intended as a negation of the soul's having any active participation, individual interest or property, in human pains, possessions, or fellings. I am, I do, I suffer, mean that the material nature or some of her products (substantially), is, does, or suffers, and not the soul, which is unalterable and indifferent, susceptible to neither pleasure nor pain, and only reflecting them, as it were or seemingly sharing them, from the proximity of nature by whom they are really experienced.” When the Purusa thus gets rid of the ahamkāra and refuses to appropriate any thing as 'my' or 'mine', the Puruşa becomes able to detach itself from the Prakịti and its influences. It no more remains subject to temptations and allurements of the Prakịti. What exactly happens in the state of liberation of the Purusa, is not the annihilation of Prakrti and its modifications, but in that state the soul or the Puruşa completely withdraws its sanction and support by refusing to appropriate or own any of the vșttis or modifications of the Praksti. In that state the soul gives up even its merit (dharma). It gives up even its moral excellence because moral and immoral activities are real only on the phenomenal plane. Nothing adheres to the Purusa in its final state of liberation. The soul then becomes eternally free from the cycle of birth and death. The soul no more transmigrates, and hence, there remains no fear of rebirth. The Purusa becomes free for ever in the videhamukti. And it is
1 įs'varakļşņa : The Sārkhya Kārika 64 / p. 243. Tr. H. T. Colebrooke.
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