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 ....
545 relativity of consciousness for in it is fully realised the import of the metaphysical relativity, which does not exclude difference, but includes and absorbs it in the transcendental apperception of unity..... It is a freedom and necessity and both, freedom in the sense of a release from the divided vision and obstruction, necessity in the sense of utter dependence upon the infinite."! He further makes the relation between the two clearer and says that the infinite expresses its power and blessedness in and through the finite; the infinite Divine pours its blessedness and fullness into the finite and the finite receives it to its fullest capacities and is overfilled with the exuberance of the divine joy and bliss.
The realisation of the essential identity of the soul with the Brahman is the aim of a mumuksu (998) -- seeker of liberation. Rāmānuja recognises the need of all the three yogas or paths (jñānayoga, karmayoga and bhaktiyoga), for the attainment of the state of final release. He does not at all dispute the necessity of knowledge for liberation. Knowledge is the first necessity; for, bondage arises out of nescience or avidyā which can be destroyed only by knowledge; but it is not any kind of knowledge such as knowledge by sense-perception or by inference or knowledge by word, by simply reading the texts. But the Brahman can be known properly, and the individual's unity with it can be realised only through meditation on it. The final state of liberation can
1 Sircar Mahendranath : Comparative Studies in Vedantism, pp. 265, 266. Ā 35
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