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
cuts the Karmas of the souls and produces things to be enjoyed and suffered and also their means. He exercises His power of creation only as impelled by Karmas of the finite souls. He possesses a body which is unhuman and unfettered. The body is made up of powers and five specific formulas (mantras) being imagined to be the different parts of the body. The five powers and forms are-creation, protection, destruction, concealment and benefaction.1
The Pas'us whom the Lord S'iva rules, are the individual souls having the atomic size, and are self-conscious. The Pas'us are all-pervading, eternal, and the doers of actions. They are imperfect in knowledge and powers as compared with S'iva; but when they secure mukti or emancipation after their fetters (Pas'as) are removed, and then they become omniscient, and possess the real powers of actions. The individual souls are of three kinds: They are the (i) Vijñānākala, (i) Pralayākala, and (iii) Sakala. The first kind of Pas'u is Vijñānākala. Such a soul has shaken off its connection with all organs by destroying the impressions of deeds done in the past by means of knowledge, meditation, asceticism or by enjoying the fruits of actions. The Pralayakala is that pas'u whose organs are destroyed by the dissolution of the world; but the impressions of deeds and their taints remain behind. The Sakala
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1 Bhandarkar R. G. Vaisnavism, S'aivism and Minor Religious Systems, p. 124.
2 Sarvadarsanasangraha, p. 182.