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-Mímāmsā
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Ganganath Jha mentions a note from Samkara Mis'ra from his Vadi Vinoda (p 40) in which it is stated that according to Prabhākara, Liberation consists in the Prāgabhāva-absence before appearence of pain along with the total absence of pain; that is a state in which there is no Pain and no likelihood of (appearance) of Pain. All future possibilities of the appearance of pain are eliminated for ever.
According to Kumārila Bhatta also liberation consists in the destruction of the Karma and the prevention of the production of a future body. Unlike Prabhākara, Kumārila has explicitly stated his idea of moksa in ślokavirtika in the following passage — “For those who have understood the real nature of the Soul, all their past Karma having become exhausted through experience, and there being no Karmic residum left to wipe off, there comes no future body; as it is only for the experiencing of the reactions of past Karma that the soul is burdened with the Body; therefore, the seeker for liberation should not do any such act as has been forbidden or even what has been enjoined for certain purposes (as both of these would bring about Karmic reaction which would have to be expiated by experience); but he should continue to perform the compulsory acts, as the omission of these would involve sin, which would have to be expiated by painful experience through a physical body."? Kumarila agrees with the
Jha Ganganath : Pūrva-Mimāṁsā, p. 37. S'lokavārtika - Farafia i 108-110.
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