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
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Atmap and Mokşa
number of particular objects. The Brahman being all-pervading (vibhu) is equally present in all the objects animate and inanimate, the Self or Brahman acting as its innermost reality. Rāmánuja holds that the individual souls and the inanimate objects exist as the body of the Brahman just as we have our bodies related to the soul. The highest Self, the Brahman or the Paramātmā enters every mode of it, and acts as its ( apartat) inner controller. Ontologically the Brahman is the substratum or the sustainer of the effects, and morally, it is the inner controller of the souls and the world. In fact, the whole world and the individual souls (jīvas) are already present in the womb of the Brahman as potential (FITUTTERIT) and they express themselves in the actual form (Prerfarul) by means of the wonderful power (7141) of is'vara. Isvara or Brahman or the Supreme Self being one and entering as the inner Self (TTTTTTTT) in the various animate and inanimate (Forefera) objects, assumes the various wonderful (fafen) forms and does various duties through them in their various forms and thus, appears as multifarious (79754).' Thus, the whole world (acit) and the individual souls already exist in the Brahman, and are never without it. The Brahman pervades and envelops its whole creation. In pralaya, the world and the souls dwindle into their potential
1 Rāmānuja : Vedartha Sangraha. Com. by Sudars'ana Sūri, p. 127.
प्रशासितृत्वेन एक एव सन् विचित्रचिदचिद्वस्तुषु अन्तरात्मतया प्रविश्य तत्तद्रूपेण विचित्रप्रकारो विचित्रकर्मकारयन् नानारूपतां भजते ।
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