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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Samkhya
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of the Supreme Lord."Thus, God is free from all the imperfections from which the worldly beings suffer. Though He is a special kind of Purusa possessing special attributes, He is distinguished from the other liberated souls for never being in bondage in the past. He is ever free. Further Vyāsa says-“None equals in excellence to him." In him rests the highest stage of the seed of omniscience. He is never likely to fall into bondage like the other Purusas; He is the pre-eminent being among the Purusas. He is represented by “Aum". The God of Yoga is not the creator of the world and souls; He is not a cause of them. In that case the eternity of the Prakçti and Purusas will be challenged. God acts only as a guide to the evolution of Prakrti, and sees that the Praksti functions for the purpose of the souls. Prak;ti and Purusas are independent in existence; their interaction is facilitated by God. Moreover, Patañjali has stressed the need of God for practical purposes, i.e., for helping the devotees who practise the Yogic austerities to attain the final state of isolation of the Puruşa from the Prakrti by removing impediments from their path. The arguments of Patañjali to establish the existence of God are not philosophically sound; but he was not interested so much in a logical account of the world. He did not deal much with the metaphysical nature and place of God in his system as his main interest was to secure an omnipotent being
1 Jha Ganganath (Tr.): Pātañjala Yoga Sütriini. See com. by Vyāsa - Sūtra 24, pp. 39, 40.
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| 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 |