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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Mokga
and meditation also are necessary to realise one's real nature and to uproot all other false attachments to various worldly objects of enjoyment. Samkara believes that the Vedic rituals may lead to (abhyudaya) enrichment of worldly life but not to salvation. Knowledge alone can effect Mokṣa.
For Private And Personal
However, S'amkara does not neglect the necessity of purifying the body and the mind. Though the self is self-illuminating, its light does not become visible if it is enveloped by an opaque or a dark medium. If the physical structure in which the self resides is made clean and transparent by removing its impurities the soul's brilliance becomes visible. Similarly, the experience of being identical with the Brahman is facilitated if one's sense of egoism and pride is annihilated and when one has totally withdrawn oneself in the Brahman. Thus Samkara recognises the need for and importance of the ethical life in so far as it works on the phenomenal plane, he emphasizes the good and the right as against the evil and wrong, and helps the seekers of mokṣa to rise beyond the gross adjuncts which make the knot of bondage more and more tight. The ethically good and right is not the ultimate end to be attained, according to S'amkara. The end according to him, is the attainment of the Brahman itself by becoming one with it; it is a state of absolute perfection which is beyond all dualities and relativity. All our distinctions of good and evil, right and wrong, mine and thine are dissolved in the final state of liberation. It is not a state of highest morality, but it is a
| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| 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 |