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 (Sankara )
451
Ātman becomes immune to the deceptions of the world as he occupies the transcendent position and to him the whole changeful panorama of the world appears only an illusion; it is like a dream to him. So long as one is asleep and identifies himself with the dreams he becomes happy or unhappy by the events that he sees in the dreams; but when he awakens, he finds that the dreams have already disappeared. Similar is the case of person who attains the highest knowledge of the soul. When he reaches the final transcendental state (graifeaT) he realises that he, i.e., the Brahman alone is real, and everything else which is changing and transient is only illusory or apparent, and that in reality it does not exist at all. The previous knowledge of its existence was a result of ignorance. But the world is illusory to him and only to him who rises beyond all the change and relativity of the world and completely forgets his own narrow individual existence which is caused by adjuncts and has become one with the infinite Brahman. To one who has not attained such an experience and knowledge the world with its bewildering variety is as true as to an ordinary man. S'ankara does not as such make the world unreal or fifeert; the world is mithyā in a definite sense. It is not unreal to each and any man but it is unreal only to the knower of the Brahman (wala) who has himself become the Brahman. One who rises beyond the earthly existence of change and relativity becomes eternally free from the earthly pleasurable and painful experiences. As he enters into identity with the Brahman or which he himself is, becomes
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