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
Vedānta (S'askara)
447 Sankara. Samkara accepts fully the truth of the Upanişadic saying “All this is Ātman", "I am the Brahman", "The Soul is Brahman" Sankara identifies the soul with Brahman, " The Self is the Brahman.'? The Ātman is nothing else or different but it is the Brahman itself. The Ātman or Self is the innermost reality or the Self of everything. It is the essence of everything material and immaterial that exists. It is all-pervasive, and therefore, infinite. It is without bounds or limitations. It is eternal, i.e., unborn and undying. It is not created, and hence, it is imperishable. It is pure sentience or consciousness. It is eternal (faca), pure (376), sentience (gen) and free (gu). It is free from every kind of change or modification (fare). It exists from the beginning and will exist for all the times to come. It cannot be touched by time because it is beyond temporal determinations. It is existent in everything and still above all; it is both immanent and transcendent. It is not material or jada but it is sentient and also full of bliss or ānanda. Hence it is characterised as the existence (877), sentience (fa) and bliss (117). It is the perfection of everything and is free from any kind of determination. It is one whole and continuous. It is devoid of parts and is therefore indivisible and everywhere alike (87878). It is beyond all dualities of good and bad, real and unreal, now and then, here and there and is free from the 1 Bțh. Up. 14/10 and 2.5.19.
सर्व खल्वयमात्मा । अहं ब्रह्मास्मि । अयमात्मा ब्रह्म । ? S'amkara : Brahma Sūtra Bhasya (Nirņaya Sagar Edition).
जिज्ञासाधिकरण, सूत्र I. आत्मा च ब्रह्म.
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