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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Atman and Mokṣa
peak of goodness, i.e., He is the best; because there are great and greater things in the world, He is the greatest. He is pure Sattva devoid of the other two attributes rajas and tamas, which cause imperfection in the cases of others. God has a perfect nature (prakṛstasattva-).
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Patanjali has described God (Is'vara) as "The Supreme Lord is an extraordinary spirit unaffected by Afflictions, Actions, Fruition and Dispositions."
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Vyasa in his commentary on the above Sūtra describes the qualities that are possessed by God. The description appears negative to indicate that God is free from the imperfection which occurs due to those qualities which human beings or the individual souls possess in their earthly life. Vyasa says Afflictions-Illusion (and Egoism, Love, Hate and yearning for Life). Actions good and bad fruition- the result of actions. Dispositions tendencies in keeping with the said Fruition. Though in reality, all these subsist in the Mind, yet they are attributed to the Spirit, because it is the spirit that experiences the results of all these (in the shape of Birth, Life and Experience)....just as victory or defeat, though really belonging to the actual fighters (soldiers), is yet attributed to their master....In the case of the liberated Man, the preceding stage of Bondage is clearly recognised; not so in the case 1 Jha Ganganath (Tr.): Patanjala Yoga Sutrani (Com. Vyāsa)-Sūtra 24, p. 40.
क्लेशकर्मविपाकाशयैः अपरामृष्टः पुरुषविशेषः ईश्वरः ।
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