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
Atmap and Mokşa
is just reverse in the scale of the psychic apparatus mentioned in the Kausītaki Upanişad, where prāņa is put above the mind.
But penetrating still into the deeper levels of consciousness, it will be found that mind is not the last thinking agent. Mind has to be subordinated to a still higher faculty, known as the 'intellect' or ‘understanding' whose function is to weigh various alternatives, to deliberate by thinking over the pros and cons of a thing and then to decide the rightness and wrongness of things under consideration. It discriminates between the good and the bad, right and the wrong to decide the line of action and thought. It is the 'reason' of man. Therefore psychologically a separate faculty known as 'intellect' has to be admitted. “Different from this, which consists of mind, is the other, the inner Self, which consists of understanding' or Reason; the former is filled by this.''! This intellect guides and governs the working of the mind. This previous possession of the intellect raises man to a higher level of consciousness and thus enables him to conquer nature by an understanding of the laws of its working.
Even this 'Reason' is not the last thing in man. Reason many times falls short of meeting the demands made on it by the environment. Reason too is fallible. Reason also is one part of his total consciousness. Consciousness is wider than the Reason. The pure unconditioned, unborn and imperishable part of man remains still behind. It is called the
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