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)
the knowledge of the Brahman as that experience which reveals that 'I am the equanimous, peaceful, characterised by existence (sat), consciousness (cit) and bliss (ananda), unchangeable formless, undiseased, devoid of illusion, devoid of attributes, passive, eternal, everfree, unstained, unflinching, infinite, pure, undecaying and immortal Brahman and not the unreal (a) body." S'amkara clearly says that as long as one falsely perceives jar in clay and silver in shell, and similarly individual personality (Jivatva) in the Brahman, he is bound to perish. Thus bondage is the false estimation of one's nature, which when corrected properly, disappears and the same individual soul begins to appear in a new form. It is an internal transformation of the individual, an entirely new experience of being the whole Reality itself, and in it the old distinctions (bhedas) melt away like the objects of dreams and one experiences the fulness of his infinity and all-pervasiveness. Then one properly understands the real meaning of 'Thou art that', that he is the omnipresent, blissful, and intelligent principle of the whole Reality. He sees everywhere the Brahman which is constituted of consciousness.
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Such an experience of a synthetic unity and one obtains identity by the knowledge of the Brahman. The Sarvadars'anasa graha says that by hearing, contemplating, experiencing by powerful emotions the Brahman which is everywhere the same or identical (ekarasa) and is constituted of existence (sat),
1 S'amkara: Aparoksānubhūtiḥ, S'lokas 24-28.