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 Mokşa
the perfect existence (sat-), perfect knowledge (cit-f), and perfect bliss (ananda-) in an integral experience. S'amkara does not believe in the reality of change. He regards all change illusory, and therefore, any evolution is illusory, according to S'amkara. S'amkara's reality is the eternal, imperishable, infinite, immutable, self-illumined Atman which is evercontented and free from all kinds of imperfections. The state of perfection is attained forever, according to S'akara, and the end of human life is its realisation. According to him, nothing new and more than that is to be achieved. Such highest state of perfection (Mokṣa) is existing forever, according to S'amkara.
For Private And Personal
S'amkara's concepts of the Self and Moksa are the most evolved ones and are of supreme eminence. The whole humanity is striving for the satisfaction of the Self; but due to the wrong concepts of the Self, in spite of the refinement of the material civilization and the multifarious means of pleasures and happiness, both physical and mental, humanity has not succeeded in becoming free from the basic discontent. As the material and psychical means (including science, art, literature, philosophy, and religion) of satisfaction have failed to remove the deeprooted discontent and the sense of frustration, it is gradually becom ing evident that the Self that seeks satisfaction in and through the activities of the humanity is not the physical body, the sense organs nor the mind and its various desires and aspirations; the Self is not even the mind; but it is something different