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
Purva-Mjmāns
continues to revolve on the wheel of birth and death by being born in new physical bodies so long as the desert is operative and it is not exhausted. The emergence of the physical bodies along with its sense organs again connects the soul with the external world from which actions take place, which leave behind them their impressions that turn into the desert. The Prābhākaras thus hold, that once the total accumulated stock of the desert is exhausted either by enjoying or is destroyed by knowledge, the soul does not take fresh birth and thus one gets permanent freedom from the samsāra. Pärthasārathi Misra also defines mokṣa as “the withdrawal from the saására,”! Thus, in liberation, the soal ceases to have any connection with the body. The process by which men attain liberation is described in the following manner. The worldly life is supposed to be full of pain and suffering. Man frequently has to undergo tremendous suffering in the worldly life. Even the pleasure that one enjoys is found to be mixed up with pain. No pure or unmixed pleasure can ever be experienced in the worldly life. As even the pleasures of the worldly life are found to be invariably accompanied by pain one gradually becomes desperate and begins to lose interest in and longing for such adulterated pleasures. Man seeks always an agreeable experience. One has the psychological tendency to flee away from all kinds of pain. He moves in search of such a place where either the pleasure is not accompanied by Miséra Pārthasārathi : S'astradīpikā, 1.1.5, p. 130.
__ निवृत्तिरेव संशारादपवर्ग इवीर्यते । Ā 28
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