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
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Atman and Mokga
pain or at least pain has come to an end. He finds such a hope of terminating his miseries or sorrows in mokṣa or liberation. When he properly grasps the nature of moksa or liberation, he stops the performance of the prohibited acts; not even that, but he goes ahead and stops performing even those acts which lead not to trouble and misery, but even to pleasures of different sorts, either here or hereafter. Before he becomes able to reach the final state he has to exhaust the old accumulated stock of merit and demerit by experiencing them. As he comes to exhaust the previously accumulated stock of merit and demerit, he prevents the further accumulation of merit and demerit by means of the right knowledge of the soul and reality. He also cultivates side by side qualities like contentment and self-control as have been prescribed by the scriptures. By means of these practices, by knowledge and mainly by arresting the further influx of Karma by denying any kind of experience of pleasure and pain one can ensure no further return of the soul into this world. When the soul is withdrawn perpetually from the world the soul rests quietly in its own natural state. Liberation is thus, according to the Mīmānsā, a state of utter painlessness as one of pleasurelessness. It consists in the freedom from any kind of experience. As Pärthasārathi describes it appropriately, “in such a state the liberated soul rests in its own natural state (svastha-FERT) as he is free from pleasure as well as pain."! 1 Mis'ra Pārthasārathi : S’āstradipika, 1.1.5, p. 130.
सुखदुःखविहीनोऽतो मुक्तः स्वस्थोऽवतिष्ठते ।
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