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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The Vaisnava Saints of
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
here the Brahman seems to be the material cause of the world. He also figuratively says that the Brahman is the father, and Māyā the mother of the world.' Thus, the whole universe is deluded by nescience and dances due to it. Nescience acts as the missile of infatuation (moha), as a vessel of the drink of delusion its hymn (mantra) being non-discrimination (aviveka ).2
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Jñanes'vara urges the necessity of a proper discrimination between the non-eternal and the eternal just as the swan separates milk from water. The jiva which struggles on the earth for the achievement of happiness but often-times it has to undergo numerous sufferings, is compelled to suffer only due to nescience or the ignorance of its own real nature. If it properly understands that its changing nature is only illusory and its real nature is immutable, eternal, and blissful and that, if it overcomes its false identification with the external upādhis, and if it realizes that it is in reality the Supreme Self or the Brahman itself, it will be eternally free from all the sufferings, and in addition, it will enjoy the immense happiness of the Supreme Self. It will then experience the bliss of its infinite nature.
1 Jnanes' vari, XIV. 118.
2 Ibid. XIV. 176, 177.
Jñanes'vara, therefore, advocates both the knowledge of and devotion to God to attain the final state of emancipation. He says 'Liberation is to know Me in My true form. The man of non-wisdom is in bondage, as he does not know Me, but dwells
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