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
484
Ātman and Moksa
where. He is infinitely superior to the individual souls in all respects. He is the repository of all perfections. He enjoys absolute supremacy over the world as He possesses all the powers to do and to undo things. He is the sovereign Lord of the universe and possesses infinite bliss in Him. He is related to the individual souls as their protector, guide and ideal.1 God or Is'vara is non-doer (37) since He has no self-interest; the individual jivas are doers of actions and the reapers of the rewards of actions. Is'vara is the object of worship of the individual souls. As compared with the Jivas or individual souls which are imperfect, weak, ignorant, and mortal, God is infinitely superior to them. He creates the world and destroys it at will with His unique power of Māyā. After its destruction the world is again retracted in His Māyā. God has a personality since He has selfconsciousness and is aware of the distinctions of the individual souls and objects of the world. As He is eclipsed by the adjunct of Māyā He is inferior to the Brahman and does not therefore enjoy his superb position; His reality being determined and particularised, it does not belong to the final plane of noumental reality (Taifa FIT), but He has the perfection and reality on the phenomenal plane (27981fum). S'amkara says that the highest Lord does not feel the pain of the sanäsāra state in the same way as the individual soul does. The pain is due to nescience but as the Lord is not deceived by nescience; He is free from all pains and is full of infinite bliss.
1 Samkara (Com.) on Vedānta Saūtras. Tr. Thibaut, 2.3.46, Vol. II, p. 64.
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