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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Atman and Mokỹa
full of bliss (97) which is the nature of the Brahman.
Saskara holds that the Ātman is the innermost reality of every person. It is that because of which one has the sense of one's egohood or 'I'ness. Slamkara thus states that the innermost conscious nature of a person that appropriates various experiences to himself and experiences them is the soul of that person. One knows his soul in his experience of 'I'. The soul reveals itself to every person as his 'I' (अहंप्रत्यय). It is the knower and receiver of all experiences. It is the subject of the experiences that one has. All other things are the objects of this subject which is the soul. One intuitively knows his own soul which cannot be understood in terms of any other thing but itself. The contrast between the "Ihood' and 'Thouhood' is perfect and they are opposed to each other like light and darkness;' they can never mutually replace each other. The soul of oneself shines in him as a light which cannot be denied by him. As S'amkara says "Hence it can be neither be denied nor be represented as the mere complement of injunctions; for of that very person who might deny it is the Self. And as it is the Self of all, it can neither be striven after nor avoided. The soul is imperishable."2 Thus, the soul cannot
i S'ara kara : Brahma Sūtra Bhasya. (Sanskrit) -Samanvayādbyāyaḥ - 1.
युष्मदस्मत्प्रत्ययगोचरयोः विषयविषयिणोः तमप्रकाशवत्
विरुद्धस्वभावयोः। :: S'arikara ( Com.) on Vedanta Sätras (Tr. Thibaut), Vol. I. 1.1.4, p. 37.
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