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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Ātman and Moksa
is single, or rather it is that which has no second. According to S'amkara, the ultimate reality is only one and that is the Absolute -- the Brahman. He does not believe like the Nyāya Vais'eşika in the plurality of ultimate real substances, nor does he believe in the dual reality like the Sāmkhya. He reduces the bewildering variety of things to one final entity which is known as the Brahman. According to S'amkara, Brahman is the first and the last thing of the world. If Realities are many, then difficuties of their interrelations arise, and they too in their turn require some superior entity to regulate and control their interrelations. If there are two ultimate realities like the Puruşa and the Prakặti, then again their interrelations and positions have to be explained. The word 'Brahman' is derived from the root' Bịh' to grow. That which grows or extends so much that it embraces the whole of the existence in all times. Brahman is thus the only substratum and root-cause of all the things of the past, the present and the future. All things are born out of it, they exist or subsist in it and by it, and ultimately return to it at the end. It is the supreme and unchanging principle of existence which acts as the final abode and support of all things and phenomena that can be imagined in all the times. It embraces the whole universe in all the times. It is like the 'plenum of Being' of Parmenides. Nothing that has existence can exist outside the Brahman.
This very Brahman, the single or identical final Reality is known as the Ātman or Self by
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