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
Vedanta (S'amkara)
them particularly. As it is all, it is no one particular thing and does not possess any particular quality. As it is the same in all without any intrinsic difference or distinction, it is the highest common factor of all. It is the universal element in all and has no particular attribute. Though it is in all and though it is the essential nature of all, it is not exhausted by all the particulars. It is immanent in all and still transcends them. Such is the ultimate reality or Brahman or Self. It transcends all dualities and is unique in character. It is peculiar by itself and is similar to nothing else, for there is no second to it. It is also described as the eternal witness or the eternal subject of the whole existence. But though it is described as the subject it is not exclusively separated from the object of its knowledge. It is a synthetic unity of subject and object in itself. It is both at once. It is exclusively neither of them. It is described as the 'subject' or sākṣin (eft) simply because it is a mass of pure intelligence or consciouness (:) without any internal distinction. It is the principle of existence () and awareness or consciousness (fa) of its existence and is constituted of everlasting bliss (). Not only is it a homogeneous unity of thought and existence, but it is complete homogeneity characterised by existence (sat), consciousness (cit) and bliss (ananda). In reality it is in itself without any particular quality. It is pure sentience or consciousness and hence, it is termed as the subject; but it is an objectless subject. Its subjectivity is not dependent upon external
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