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
Conclusion
contents with a person's increasing range of appropriation of things and of emotions and thoughts. But he believes that the evolution of the world is directed to the realisation of the Deity (God). The Self is an intermediate stage in the process.
Edward Caird believes that the evolution of religion has first taken place in the outward, then in the inward, and then in the upward direction towards Godhood or Divinity. His remarks are justifiable and highly valuable since it is a fact that during the whole history of human civilization man first tried to conquer external nature and tried to seize everlasting happiness and peace from it, but failing in it, he turned inward and sought for happiness and peace in his own mental and spiritual experiences. Failing even in that he turned his eyes upward and sought to attain everlasting peace and joy from the company of God. He then found the joy of fulfilment of his whole life in the attainment of God or Divinity.
Herbert Spencer describes evolution as the passage from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from simple to complex, and from indefinite to definite. It is difficult to pick up any definite line of evolution in the ideas of a particular thing. Religious ideas are influenced by the philosophical systems which precede them or are contemporary with them.
According to Islam, the soul is different from the body and it has a spiritual nature. It is the agent of moral actions and it remains in contact with this world as well with the other superior world. Ā 51
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