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 Upanişads
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intellect, and the Great Self is beyond the intellect. Beyond the Great there is the Undeveloped, beyond the Undeveloped (avyakta) there is the Person (Purusa). Beyond the Person there is nothing -- this is the goal, the highest road.”? Here, in the chain of the various members of the psychic apparatus, there is no special place ascribed to prāņa; the chain is only of the senses-objects-mind-buddhi (intellect)and the soul-Ātman. Here, the Ātman is not only dissociated from the prāņa but the word prāņa is not even mentioned. However, it is made clear here by the Upanișadic thinkers, that the real knower is the Ātman and not the mind. Appa rently the mind is the knower, but the real experiencer or enjoyer is the subtle Ātman that can know the things only when it is attached to mind and senses. This Ātman is hidden and is imperceptible to us. Further the Ātman is described thus-“That Self is hidden in all beings and does not shine forth but is seen by subtle seers through their sharp and subtle intellect.? It implies that the Ātman is a subtle principle that does not possess any material and perceptible quality with which we can know it by the sense organs. It being subtle has to be known intuitively in our own experience. It expresses itself to us only as a subject and not as an object.
The Taittirīya Upanişad gives a cosmology wherein we get the stages of the evolution of the world and body and Ātman from the Brahman.
1 Katha Up.-I. 3.10.11.
a Ibid.-I, 3.12. Tr. Max Müller, p. 13. Ā 3
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