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
Atman and Mokşa
all overcoming prowess. (iii) Vibhava (fara ) - which mode consists of ten Avatāras, fish, tortoise, etc. (iv) Antaryamin (praefat)-in which mode He dwells in the heart and is to be seen by Yogins and accompanies the individual souls even when they go to heaven or hell. (v) Idols or images made of materials chosen by the worshippers."1 In fact these six attributes exist in all the four Vyūhas but only two of them manifest in accordance with their functions apportioned to them and, the other four remain unmanifest or dormant in them.?
Rāmānuja holds that in Moksa the individual soul overcomes its false sense of complete separability from the Brahman being caused by its false identity with Praksti and the soul, then remains fused with the Brahman or the Supreme Self without losing the awareness of its own existence. Mahedranath Sircar gives a vivid and eloquent description of the state of liberation of the soul. He says - “And in so far liberation implies this breaking of nature's bond, we can speak of the emancipated soul as getting into the infinite expanse and the transcendental realm. But it is in no sense the parting with a finite personality. In the finitude of the soul it feels and enjoys the infinite pulse. And this becomes possible through Sakti, the divine influence. Liberation in theistic sense is not the denial of the
1 Bhandarkar R. G. : Vaisnavism, S'aivism and Minor Religious Systems, pp. 53, 54. Also see Sarvadars'anasangraha, p. 116 and Com. on p. 115.
2 Sarvadars' anasangraha, p. 115,
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