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'arákara)
be denied by any body; in the denier that which denies is itself the soul. Nobody can ever separate himself from it. It is ever present in all beings. Thus S'amkara establishes his statement that the soul is present not only everywhere but in every person, it reveals to him as his 'I' which he can never escape. It is inseparably associated with one's conscious life. It is that principle in each which appropriates to itself objects or experiences as its own or as 'my' and 'mine'. A thing is what it is only in virtue of this intrinsic principle in it. It is the substratum of one's self-consciousness. It is inalienably present in an individual's conscious experiences. If it is not explicity present; it is implicitly present as the subjective revealer of the conscious experiences which are its objects.
S'amkara further states that the soul is consti. tuted of eternal intelligence (Cit). In contrast with the Nyāya Vais'esika systems S'amkara holds that the soul is self-shining or self-illuminating (F42°347T). S'amkara gives an appropriate account of it in the following passage —"To this we reply that the Soul is of eternal intelligence (fara a), for that very reason that it is not a product but nothing else but the unmodified highest Brahman which, owing to the contact with its limiting adjuncts, appears as individual soul... The absence of actual intelligence is due to the absence of objects, not to the absence of intelligence; just as the light pervading space is not apparent owing to the absence of
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