Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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The Absolute Soul is self - illuminated and Eternal Blessedness. Moksha or Nirvana is the supreme stage. It is not annihilation of the soul but an endless blessedness, a Summum Bonum.
Lure, attachment and the like can be destroyed by observing the rigorous laws of morality and religion. In pujyapada's view if deliverance is to be achieved the lower matter, the sensual feelings, the lure of worldly things are to be subdued by the higher spirit. When the soul is freed from the weight of sensuality, darkness, illusions, it rises up to the supreme stage where all the liberated dwell.
Further Pujyapada advises that to elevate oneself into the place where the liberated dwell, the Absolute state, the Nirvana, one must obtain the real knowledge and the attainment of this knowledge is an effect of the observance of the ethical laws alone. Preparedness of mind, ability to resist one's passions and to endure austerities are the very means to this knowledge. On the completion of religious and moral discipline, ascetic and rigorous preparations alone one can attain the liberation, the Moksha.
... Prof. 8. M. Chamke