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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Ātman and Moksa
relativity of the world. It is immutable (etfararent and zafaret). It is the basis of all. All contradictions dissolve in it, and therefore it acts as the ultimate source, support and resort of all the things of the world. It is immortal and is constituted of pure bliss (ānanda), and therefore, pain and suffering can never affect it. It is the witness of all the changes that go on in the world, but it is not the least deceived by the world. It is supersensuous because it cannot be perceived by the sense organs.
Such is the Ātman according to Samkara. Samkara further holds that this Atman or Brahman alone is real and all other phenomenal things as compared with it are unreal or illusory. The Brahman alone is real for, it is free from contradictions in all the times. It cannot be falsified or contradicted in all the three times, the past, the present, the future (Freestarista). All other things of longer and shorter durations can be falsified or contradicted. They, being perishable, come to the termination of their life and hence, cannot remain the same for all the times. The Brahman is imperishable or immortal, therefore, it can never be falsified by any other thing; and moreover, there exists no second to it. It is what exists in itself and for itself. As the things of the changing world are not trikālābādhita or free from contradiction they are not real; they are unreal as compared with the only real ultimate reality, the Brahman. All change is illusory and as worldly life is changing, it is unreal. S'amkara calls the world or phenomenal life unreal (open).
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| 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 |