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 Rāmāpuja.....
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including gods like Brahmadeva; (ii) the freed (99) are those who have abandoned even their subtle bodies by means of the devotion to the Isvara and stay in the Vaikuntha (as); they have an infinite experience of the Brahman. In the state of liberation their eight qualities (T0787) like sound, touch, brilliance, taste, odour, power, knowledge, and bliss (ananda) which were obscured (tirobhūta-fatiua) while in bondage become manifest; (iii) the eternal (farm) jivas are the Ananta (the cobra), the Garuda (eagle), etc. God is the abode of experience of the freed and eternal souls.
The jivas, individual souls are thus the parts (sie) of the Brahman and they are atomic in size. Though they are parts of the Brahman, they are not separate from the cause since they rest upon the cause (star) and the Brahman is present in each of them as their internal reality that controls them from within (parafat). The souls (jivas) also form a body of the Brahman. They are like the attributes (vistesanas) of the Supreme indwelling Self, the Isvara Just as an adjective vis'eşaņa (fasique) cannot exist without a substantive vis'eşya (fastcu), similarly the jīva cannot exist apart from its cause, the Brahman. Rāmānuja says "The individual soul is a part of the highest Self; as the light issuing from a luminous thing such as fire or the sun is a part of the body; or as the generic characteristic of a cow or horse, and the white or black colour of things so coloured, are attributes and hence, parts of the things in which those attributes
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