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 Moksa
This inner Self is the real knower. It knows the objects through the mind and sense organs, using them as its instruments. Throughout the process of knowing, in all the stages — in sensation, perception, association of ideas, comparison, judgement, deliberation and discrimination, the same inmost Self is present, though its presence is not felt. Yājñavalkya in the Brhadāraṇyaka Upanişad says--"He who dwells in beings, in the breath, in the tongue, in the eye, in the ether, in the mind, in the skin .... He who dwells in knowledge, and within knowledge, whom knowledge does not know, whose body knowledge is, and who pulls (rules) knowledge within, he is thy Self, the puller (ruler ) from within, the immortal."! Continuing the same Yāgħavalkya further says —"He who dwells in the seed, and within the seed, whom the seed does not know, whose body the seed is, and who pulls (rules) the seed within, he is thy Self, the puller, the ruler within, the immortal; unseen but seeing; unheard but hearing; unperceived but perceiving; unknown but knowing. There is no other seer but he, there is no other hearer but he, there is no other perceiver but he, there is no other knower but he. This is thy Self, the ruler within, the immortal."2 So far we were thinking of this Self as an inner thinking principle in man; it forms a part of his psychology. But this same inner Self of man is also described as one who dwells in every 1 Běh. Up. 3.7.22. Tr. Max Müller, p. 136.
आत्मा अन्तर्यामी अमृतः । 2 Ibid. 3.7.23. Tr, Max Müller, p. 136.
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