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
Pūrva-Msmāṁsa
415
of a man. Ganganath Jha describes it further as “The Mind is a substance and not a composite body. It cannot be omnipresent like the soul because then their contact would be everlasting. It is of atomic dimension. As it has no cause it is eternal. It is extremely mobile. It has simultaneous and continuous various perceptions. Without it the soul cannot perceive the external world. The contact of the Mind with the conscious soul is due to endless series of Merit and Demerit accumulated in previous births."! Thus, the mind acts as an indispensable instrument of the soul for the acquisition of knowledge. It is extremely mobile; so by constantly moving from object to object it fetches the impressions of the external world to the soul. The soul is immobile or immutable as it is all-pervasive. The distinctions of particular individuals are maintained by means of the different minds. If the mind were to fill the whole of the body it would be conversant with the various sense perceptions at once, and there would arise confusion. It is atomic and so it can be extremely active and prompt in attending to perceptions separately. It is that which registers the sense perceptions and conveys them to the soul. Without mind there would not be attention to the various experiences. According to Kumārila, the mind is capable of knowing the soul also in the form of one's Ego : the knowledge of the soul is given by the mind by making it its objects.
The soul is also different from buddhi or intellect.
1 Jha Ganganath: Purva-Mimāmsā, p. 31.
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