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 Mokṣa
He acts as the inner controller (antarātmā-RIGHT) of all the things of the universe and still, He has His own different nature which is not possessed by any other thing produced by him. Madhva further states that God, the Purusottama (g) who is devoid of qualities (nirgunah-far:) becomes many and still remains one (ekibhuya-) and without any defect or contamination.'
The jiva is a finite being limited in its knowledge and bliss. Its capacities are limited due to its physical and psychical limitations which are caused by nescience or avidya. Similarly, the jiva is of atomic size, it is neither of the size of the body which it occupies nor is it all-pervasive; since it does not evolve that which is possible for an allpervading principle. The jiva or soul possesses two aspects (upadhi)-one is its own essential and unchanging nature (svarūpa-), and the other is its changing external nature (bahya-). The external aspect consists in the physical body, senses, mind, the subtle body and the samskāras which are perishable, while its real essential nature remains constant; the soul remains in its own true nature (sthitiferfa) in liberation (mukti).3 Thus, in the state of 1 Madhva Madhva Bhasya, p. 5.
a kat ager year fago: gzolen: 1 एकीभूय पुनः शेते निर्दोषो हरिः ॥
2 Jayatirtha Tattvaprakās'ikā. 2.3, p. 115. जीवोऽणुरेव न व्याप्तः ।
3 Jayatirtha Tattvaprakas'ika, 2.3, p. 119. जीवोपाधिर्द्विधा प्रोक्तः स्वरूपं बाह्य एव च । angìafašá afa gaqze g ferfà: 11
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