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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body becomes relatively worthless as compared with this inner and essential principle of vitality without which the human body cannot work as a 'living organism'.'
The human being cannot be completely understood in terms of only the physical body and the vital principle. The human beings share both these attributes with the organisms of lower species, but over and above them the human beings possess some characteristic quality, because of which they stand higher in the scale of organisms. The special feature or the differentia of mankind is the mind, the thinking mind. An organism though equipped with all the sense organs, the physical apparatus with all motor organs and the vitality, it cannot reach the status of a man as long as it does not possess the 'mind' the 'thinking mind.' Therefore mind' comes to be regarded the substantial nature of man. It becomes the essential part of man. So the Taitt. Upanişad goes ahead and says –"Different from this, which consists of breath, is the other, the inner Self, which consists of mind. The former is filled by this.' The soul comes to be identified here with the mind as it is supposed to be the essential nature of man, because of the mind man is called man, or in the absence of it man ceases to be man and gets degraded to the lower species. It needs to be noted here that the mind' is regarded here as the superior principle to the prāna which
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