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
is indescribable and incommunicable just as it is in the case of the Supreme joy which is enjoyed by a young lady in her union with her beloved husband and it cannot be properly described and understood externally by an unmarried girl.'
1 Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, 619.
2 Ibid. 619, 620, 623.
3 Ibid. 799, 800.
4
Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, 786.
Atman and Mokşa
The way that Ramakṛṣpa advocates for the attainment of liberation is that of bhakti or exclusive devotion to the Lord. He believes that unless one cultivates the most earnest and intense craving for God one can never realize Him. The yearning for the union with God must be deep and profound. The love for God must be like that of a miser for gold, like the panting of drowning man for breath, like the love of a devoted wife for her beloved husband, and it should be singular by neglecting all other things of the world. The devotion or bhakti that he preaches is not mply a blind surrender to God, but it is accompanied by perfect knowledge of Him. Ramakṛṣṇa, therefore, identifies pure knowledge and pure love. God comes to help the devotees in attaining such realization if they surrender themselves totally to Him by renouncing all other things. God meets His devotees in the form of the Divine Mother. Knowledge finally leads to Love and bhakti, which when it reaches the highest pitch of intensity, attains His revelation. But knowledge or jñāna never comes without renunciation of lust and possession. With renunciation is destroyed all ignorance, all Avidya.'
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