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
Sāzakhya
379
results of actions of one's preceding life. It can be destroyed by philosophical knowledge of the reality, by burning old stock of karma and by not accumulating new karma. Videhamukti or bodiless liberation is attained when even the subtle body is destroyed for ever, and hence, all possibilities of further earthly life are eliminated for ever. Colebrooke comments finally on liberation as follows -"When the consequences of acts cease, and body both gross and subtile, dissolves, nature in respect to individual soul, no longer exists; and soul is one, single, free Kévala, or obtains the condition called Kaivalya. This, according to Vacaspati and Nárāyaṇa, means exemption from the three kinds of pain. What condition of pure separated soul may be in its liberated state, the Samkhya philosophy does not seem to hold it necessary to inquire."
Yoga The Yoga system goes along with the Sankhya system, the two systems possessing the same metaphysics of Reality. Yoga admits the metaphysics of the Sääkhya with a little alteration. The Yoga system admits the duality of the two eternal principles, the Purușa and the Prakịti and ascribes the material universe to the Prakřti which is constituted of the three guņas. It believes in the twenty-five elements of evolution of the Sainkhyas and admits the plurality of souls, that are purely sentient in their pure state but become experiencers when attached
1 īs'varakrsna : The Samkhya Karikā. See Com. on Kārikā 68, p. 251.,
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