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
Ātman and Mokea
abandons Karma of all kinds because all actions, good or bad, become illusory to it. Such a soul ceases to suffer any kind of pain, for it is beyond the duality of the sufferer and that because of which it suffers. Samkara says as fire cannot burn itself or illumine itself so also the liberated soul neither knows itself nor does it suffer due to the want of distinction in it. When the body becomes unreal to the liberated soul, how can its sufferings be real to the soul that is totally separated from the body, or which has ceased to appropriate the body as its own for the lack of the ahamkāra which is liquidated for ever ? As Paul Deussen says "Even for the man who has attained knowledge there is no longer a world, a body or suffering, there is also no longer prescribed action. But he will therefore do no evil; for that which is the presupposition of all action, good and evil, -illusion — has been annihilated." ; He thus rises above all activity for it does not remain necessary for him any more. He partakes in no activity for he loses the sense of doership of the action and enjoyership of their results. With the unreality of activity the unreality of the body which exists as the fruit of works is recognised; therefore, he who has attained knowledge is as little affected by the sufferings of his own body as by the sufferings of others; and he who still feels pain, has
I S'amkara (Com.) on Vedānta Sūtras. Tr. Thibaut, 2.2.10, Vol. I, pp. 378, 379. . ? Deussen Paul - Tr. Charles Johaston : The System of Vedanta, p. 477.
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