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
The Upanişads
sustainer of them all, is the same Universal Selfthe fraufat; but their differences are due to the separate adjuncts or mediums in which the same inner Self manifests itself. The Katha Upanişad explains it as follows -- “As the one fire, the one air, after it has entered the world, though one becomes different according to whatever it enters, thus the one Self within all things becomes different, according to whatever it enters, and exists also without."! Thus it can be said, that in spite of the plurality of the different individual souls, they are basically one in so far as their substantial and essential nature is concerned. All the differences are due to the differences of their adjuncts or of their mediums through which they manifest themselves. The individual souls are sometimes compared to the reflections in different vessels full of clean water, of the same sun which is like the highest Universal Self.
The S'vetās'vatara Upanişad describes the soul as follows
“Whoever has qualities (guņa, distinctions) is the doer of deeds that bring reconipense; And of such action surely he experiences the consequences. Undergoing all forms, characterized by the three qualities, treading the three paths; The individual Self roams about according to its deeds (karman). He is of the measure of a thumb, of sunlike appearance, When coupled with conception (samkalpa ) and egoism (ahamkāra).
1 Katha Up. 2.5.9, 10. Tr. Max Müller, p. 19.
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