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Atman and Moksá
to earth at death. It is futile and unwise to develop attachment and pride for such an evanescent thing. She believed that the worldly life is like (chahar ki baji) or the sport of sparrows which comes to an end with the advance of the evening shadows. The Lord, Bhagavan, alone is eternal and He can end the miseries of the worldly life by stopping for ever rebirth and the Karma. Hari, the Lord, is eternal (avinās'i) and that He survives the destruction even of the sun, the moon, the earth, wind, water, and the sky; and hence stable love can be developed only for such a person.1 He is beyond all finite things (atīta), and therefore, incomprehensible (agama). He is an ocean of good attributes (guņasagara), while she is full of many inauspicious attributes (avaguņa). She is devoid of good attribute (niguņi) while He possesses all attributes. She addresses the Lord as her lover (Pritam, Pyāra, Piya) and believes that the Lord can be loved as her lover. The all-pervading Lord is the Lord of heart also. She says that there is no difference between herself and the Lord; they are inseparable being related as the rays of the sun and the sun itself. She thus maintains a relation of part and whole (ams'a, ams'in) and an identity of a peculiar kind between the two.3 She further holds that the Lord is approachable by means of complete surrender of the jiva (s'araṇāgata) and that He is extremely
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
1 Chaturvedi Parashuram: Mirabajki Padavali, Poem 20, pp. 8, 9.
2 Ibid. Poem 113, p. 40. Ibid. Poem 115, p. 41.
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| 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 |