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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essential reality or the innermost reality is the Brahman that is present everywhere in all animate and inanimate things, as even in the gods like Brahmadeva. The released soul realises its true nature of prakāratva or non-differentiation from Brahman as being its body. In the state of liberation unlike Slamkara's idea, the soul does not lose itself but it enters into the experience of inseparability with the Brahman. It persists in Brahman as its body but without the actual distinctions of name and form caused by Karma. The soul maintains its individuality but only as an attribute of the Brahman. It becomes divested from the Praksti and its influences. It becomes free from all Karmas and enjoys in the company of is'vara, all His qualities in their perfection except the qualities of creation (aa) of the world and controlling it (faziaren). The souls enjoy fragmentary and sensuous pleasures in the world; while they enjoy the perfect bliss and perfect intelligence in the state of liberation. Their intelligence becomes omniscient and they become omnipotent. They become all-pervasive by being an inseparable parts of the Brahman. They are not lost in the Brahman as Sankara says; but they retain also the consciousness of 'I', and live there for eternity as distinct enjoying subjects. They enjoy there the highest bliss of Visņu (fast) or Nārāyaṇa (9177901) and become free for ever from the physical body, subtle body and the fragmentary experiences of pleasures and afflictions. This state is acquired by overcoming the false sense of separation from the Brahman, which is caused by avidyā. The souls can attain liberation,
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