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
Sāmkhya
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personality, ard the sasi sāra is an outcome of desires and passions.
The consciousness of the Purusa is stable and unchanging, all changes are due to the changes in the Citta. It is said in his commentary by Vyāsa on the Sūtra (3) —“The unconditioned and pure form of the Spirit is simply consciousness, and the active stages are due to the preponderance of the one or the other of the attributes, like the redness of the crystal due to its proximity to a red flower; as the crystal regains its pure whiteness on the removal of the red object; so, on the cessation of the functions of the Mind, does the Spirit regain its unalloyed abidance in its pristine form. The unchanging spirit itself remains of the nature of pure light, during communion as well as during the active state.” 1 Thus, the Citta is always active because of the unceasing flow of ideas and thoughts in it. Max Müller understands Citta broadly as thought or thinking. It is the tendency of the mind to remain active by remaining in contact with the external world. It receives impressions from the external world and sends appropriate reactions to the things as demanded by the situation. The mind works in both the waysgood and bad or benificial and harmful. It is said by Vyása in his commentary --"The mind riverlike flows both ways; it flows for good and it flows for evil. That which flows towards the heights of isolation through the valley of discrimination is said to 'flow
1 Jha Ganganath : Pātañjala Yoga Sūtrāni. See Com. by Vyāsa on Sūtra III, pp. 9, 10.
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