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
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Atman and Mokşa
same Upanişad describes the Ātman as “This great. unborn Self, undecaying, undying, immortal, fearless, is indeed Brahman."1 Yajñavalkya describes it (the Ātman) as the protector of all, exceedingly fine, latent, lustrous, imperishable, not above, not across, nor in the middle; there is no likeness of Him, His form is not to be seen, is invisible to the eye, abides in the heart." 2
__Moksa-मोक्ष To the Ancient thinkers the aim of philosophi. cal inquiry was, mainly, the attainment of liberation, mukti, moksa, amặtatva, niḥs'réyas. Knowledge was a means to the end of Self-realisation, which is also understood as Moksa. It is said in the Kathopani. sad — “But he, who has understanding, who is mindful and always pure, reaches indeed that place, from whence he is not born again. He who has no understanding, who is unmindful and always impure, never reaches that place, but enters into the round of births."'3 " He, who has perceived that, which is without sound, without touch, without form, without decay, without taste, eternal, without smell, without beginning, without end, beyond the Great, and unchangeable, is freed from the jaws of death."4 Passages like these abound in the Upanişads in which the desire of the individual is expressed to free himself from the wheel of birth and death. It
1 Bịh. Up. 4.4.25. Tr. Max Müller, p. 181. 2 S'vet. Up. 4. 19. Tr. Hume, p. 405. a 7 ari fant suffa I 3 Katha Up. 1.3.8, 7. 4 Katha. Up. 1.3.15.
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