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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comes ahead with confidence, power and promise and seeks to give consolation, solace and promise of deliverance to the afflicted and troubled souls. Rāmānuja's Personal God, the isvara or Nārāyaṇa stands like a magnanimous support to all the weak groaning souls and assures them eternal bliss, perfect satisfaction, everlasting freedom and promise of no-morereturn to the samsāra. He is standing for ever as a resort for all those that seek Him. He is ever ready to embrace whosoever runs to Him for protection and security. He assures all the men everlasting freedom from pain for which freedom they are ever anxious. Such a God appealed more to the people and hence Rāmānuja's philosophy came to be more appreciated and was popularly accepted. It turned into a powerful religious cult and Rāmānuja proved to be a great religious leader who stood to comfort the troubled souls irrespective of their castes, creeds and social positions. Such a God is no doubt, infinitely superior to the individual souls in knowledge, power, and glory, but He does not evoke terror and fright in the finite individuals; but He invokes in them reverence as He enters into personal relationships with them and remains ever prepared to shower on them His immense affection, profound love and immeasurable graces. As He becomes personally accessible to the finite souls, His greatness and glory increase infinitely. He commands from the finite souls reverence and devotion voluntarily. Robert Flint makes very significant remarks about the necessity of God as against the excessive intellectualism of the atheists. He says-"To the
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