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
Atman and Mokṣa
state and is full of joy. When the self is conscious neither of the external objects, nor of the internal objects, nor of both not a cognition-mass (aya ), not cognitive, not non-cognitive, unseen, with which there can be no dealing, ungraspable, having no distinctive mark, non-thinkable that cannot be designated, the essence of the assurance of which is the state of being one with the Self ( एकात्म प्रत्ययसार ), the cessation of development, tranquil (a), benign (f), without a second. Such they think is the fourth state. He is the Self (Atman). He should be discerned." It is known as the Turīya avasthā, in which the Self enjoys itself - that is, it is without a second, it enters itself and enjoys eternal peace. There is the constant and unflickering light of itself. Thus, the Self is identical in all these states of wakefulness, dreams, dreamless sleep and the fourth one-the Turīya-in which the Self enjoys its peace and tranquillity in the purest form.
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For Private And Personal
The Upanisads also recognise two kinds of Self: the one is the universal Supreme Self and the other, the particular individual soul—the jīvātmā. The one is unchanging, eternal, unborn, imperishable, above all qualities, the essence of all the things, immortal and tranquil; the other is changing, mortal, subject to pleasure and pains, the doer of actions and reaper of their fruits, the transmigrator, finite and particular being confined to particular body. The particular or the individual soul is also known as the Ego. The Maitrāyaṇi Upaniṣad distinguishes between
1 Mandukya Up. 7. Tr. Hume R. E., p. 392.