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
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Atman, and Mokşa
suffers from the pangs of separation and bereavement while it is away from its Lover, the God. On the other hand, he depicts the identity of the two by metaphorically describing the non-difference of the river and its water. The waves of the river are the same as the river itself though it appears in differ, ent forms. Kabir frequently refers to the relation of the individual soul and the Supreme Self or God as one between a beloved and her Lover or Lord. He says -- "My heart must cleave to my Lover; I must withdraw my veil, and meet. Him with all my body; Mine eyes must perform the ceremony of the lamps of lovę;.... he understands who loves. If you feel not love's longing for your Beloved One, it is vain to adorn your body, vain to pụt unguent on your eyelids."! • Kabir further holds like the Advaita Vedānta that bondage is caused in the jiva by ignorance (avidyā) which is the same as Māyā, the power of Rāma to cause deception in the minds of the people. It catches men' into various doctrines and sects and hides the real nirguņa - attributeless nature of the God.? Kabir holds that it is necessary to go behind and beyond this veil of Māyā; then and then alone can we see the Lord or God. Kabir asks the Māyā to depart from him as he is not going to be deceived by it, and thereby he does not want to displease God, He, therefore, holds that it is
1 Tagore R. (Tr:) : Kabir's Poems, Poem 11, p. 11.
2 Das Shyamsundar (Editor) : Kabir Granthā vali (Hindi) Poem 187: ''
3 Ibid. Poem 270.
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