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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tman and Moka
of the senses and their objects is based on the mind. The intellect (Buddhi) is higher than the mind, since the objects of enjoyment are conveyed to the soul by means of the intellect. Higher than the intellect is the great Self which was represented as the lord of the chariot .... that the Self is superior to intelligence is owing to the circumstance that the enjoyer is naturally superior to the instrument of enjoyment." The manas stretches in the three times and assumes various forms due to the variety of functions.
S'amkara further holds that the real or the ultimate Self is all-pervasive and to it nothing sticks. It is eternally free and pure. It cannot be affected by the Karmas. The Karmas do not stick to it. It being all-pervasive and infinite, it is everywhere; therefore, it does not transmigrate. The Supreme Self is neither the doer nor the enjoyer and hence, it cannot have any desert. The individual soul is the doer and the enjoyer of actions in the world is finite; therefore, the individual soul or jivātmā transmigrates according to its desert. S'amkara says "The Self is here said to be of the nature of the essence of the mind's (buddhi) qualities, because those qualities, such as desire, aversion, pleasure, pain and so on, constitute the essence, i.e., the principal characteristics of the Self as long as it is implicated in transmigratory existence. Apart
S'anikara (Com.) on Vedānta Sūtras. Tr. Thibaut, 1.4.15, Vol. I, pp. 239-40.
2 Ibid. 2.4.6, Vol. II, p. 81. :
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