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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much loves such a soul would not send it back to suffer on the earth." The released souls cease to be governed by karma in the kingdom of God but they are then governed by their will as they are eternally free. They possess the power to enjoy whatever they desire only by their will and do not necessarily require physical body. As their intellectual power is non-contracted, they can extend as far as they like and can get different experiences through different bodies without hindrance. They can freely move about anywhere. They live in a bodiless state. They enjoy equality with the Brahman by casting off their physical bodies. The released souls enjoy all powers, knowledge and good qualities of the Is'vara excepting a few like creating the world and ruling and guiding the different forms of motion and rest belonging to the animate and inanimate nature. Thus, the released soul does not lose itself but maintains its distinctive consciousness and attains supreme equality (Paramam Sāmyam-T R ) with the highest Brahman.
Rāmānuja denies the possibility of Jivanmukta, who overcomes Nescience but still continues to be in the physical body due to the Prārabdha Karma, the karma of which fruition has already begun. Rāmānuja disputes such a possibility and negates it on the ground that in the final state of liberation no defect
1 Rāmānuja -Com. on Vedanta Sūtras. Tr, Thibaut, 4.4.22,
p. 771.
? Ibid. 4.4.15, p. 765. * Ibid. 4.4. 5, p. 759. 4 Ibid. 4.4.17, p. 766.
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