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
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Atman and Mokşa
( jyotirūpam sulfast) it is not required to return again to the worldly life. The bodiless emancipation (videhamukti) is attained when all the accumulated karmas are fructified by experiencing them, and thus the process of attaining such a final state requires a very long period even more than one life-span. But the attainment of such a state can be expedited by devotional faith and prapatti to the Supreme Self, the Para mātman. Dasgupta describes the final state of Moksa by quoting from Vedānta Kaustubha Prabha in the following passage --"A saint, after the exhaustion of his fructifying deeds, leaves his gross body through the suşumnā (ERT) nerve in his subtle body, and going beyond the material regions (prāksta mandala 194408) reaches the border region — the river Vijarā between the material regions and the universe of Vişņu. Here he leaves aside his subtle body in the Supreme being and enters into the transcendent essence of God. The emancipated beings thus exist in God as His distinct energies and may again be employed by Him for his own purposes. Such emancipated beings, however, are never sent down by God for carrying on an earthly existence. Though the emancipated beings become one with God, they have no control over the affairs of the world, which are managed entirely by God Himself."? Nimbārka advocates the necessity of the performance of the Vedic duties of caste
Nimbarka: Brahma Mimūnsa Bhā sya, 4.4.22.
2 Dasgupta S.: A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. III, p. 415.
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