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
The Systems of Rāmānuja......
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achievement of Moksa or liberation. Karma or action one cannot give up because it is natural with each person to act as it is prompted by the Praksti; but the Karma has to be performed with a sense of complete detachment and disinterestedness. One has to dedicate the Karma and its results to God by completely overcoming the sense of egoism (3787). It lays stress on jñana and holds that the knowledge that removes the nescience (3451) and its effects is absolutely necessary for the attainment of Moksa. It gives supreme importance to Bhakti (devotion) and regards that the attainment of Moksa is dependent on a faithful surrender to and worship of God (Brahman), and that God loves most of all those of His devotees who love Him exclusively and wholeheartedly, even more than the jñānin and the karmayogin. Devotion (Bhakti) can be practised by any means; by any kind of action in the form of one's own duty; the only condition is that every action must be done without pride and egoism. One must feel that one is God Himself and that the doer of actions and the experiencer of their fruits is God. One has got to negate one's separate egoistic existence. By dedicating all actions and their results to God one can experience real detachment. When a person cultivates detachment no cause is left for him to experience grief. He has to realise that the individual soul is in reality the eternal, pure, immutable, allpervading perfect Self. It always remains what it is, and the bondage is caused by ignorance, which consists in not-perceiving the final all-embracing
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