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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intellectual power is non-contracted, is capable of extending as far as it likes, and thus to make many bodies its own. The non-released soul is ruled by Karman, the released one only by its will - this is the difference. Thus, the souls under bondage possess limited knowledge, limited power and imperfect happiness while the released souls possess the qualities of the Self in their unhindered perfection.
The essential nature of the individual souls (cit) is one of intelligence (a *), and in this respect they are similar to īs'vara, but īs'vara is all-pervasive (fay) and the souls are atomic (ru). They have sajātiya difference between them but the soul is different by kind (vijātiya) from the acit (matter) which can never be conscious. Sāyaṇa Madhava says that no contraction of knowledge can take place in the intelligence that is constitutive of its essential nature (FT04477911TFT); the contraction takes place because of the Karma which is made identical with Nescience (avidyā) by Rāmānuja, of the attributive knowledge (yoruclafT). The attributive knowledge of the souls is also known as the HÀ275117. Rāmānuja holds that it is the nature of the individual souls to undergo contraction and modifications of its attributive knowledge (gurabhūtajñāna ); similarly, it is in its nature to experience pleasure and pain by its connection (Hert) with the objects of the world (acit) which are its objects of experience (cuma) and its nature is to have the
1 Rāmānuja - Com. on Vedānta Sūtras. Tr. Thibaut, 4.4.15, p. 765. Ā 34
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