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
Vedānta ( S'ambara)
thoroughly established in his immutable, infinite blissful Self, he is naturally indifferent to all the worldly experiences. He is a living God on the earth; an immortal among the mortals, a perfect among the imperfect, an infinite among the finites.
The Jīvanmukta is the penultimate phase of a liberated soul. The really liberated soul is not attached even to the last appendage of body. It is entirely freed from all adjuncts, even its gross body which the Jīvanmukta possesses. The finally liberated soul is called "fade "; the ‘bodiless liberated soul'. Such Videhamukti is attained when a soul becomes completely separated from its last appendage of the body. In Videhamukti the gross as well as the subtle body (liñga s'arīra ) comes to an end. All the three kinds of karmas are totally exhausted and for the soul remains no purpose to possess another adjunct in the form of a body. It is completely free from rebirth. It ceases to revolve on the wheel of karma. This is the final state of liberation. The individual soul is lost for ever in the Brahman. It is no more distinguishable as a drop of water fallen in an ocean is indistinguishable from the ocean. It is one with the Brahman and enjoys to the fullest extent the perfect bliss of the Brahman. Nothing exists for it outside itself. It simultaneously experiences 'I am the Brahman' (5 ATEA) and 'All this is Brahman' (pot afecta a). It then remains filled everywhere; wherever it looks it meets itself. There is nothing else but itself. The state of liberation is thus one that transcends all spatial, temporal and mental
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