Spiritual Enlightenment

Author(s): Yogindu Deva, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Radiant Publishers

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Summary of Paramatma Prakash
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Book II
Then Prabhakara asks what is Moksha, what are the means and what is the fruit of attaining Moksha. Joindu then expounds only the views of Jina. Moksha or Liberation is superior to Dharma. Artha and Kama which do not give absolute happiness. That the Jinas attain Moksha alone by avoiding the remaining three shows that Moksha is the best of the four. The world or Samsara means bondage. Even beasts in bondage want to get release or Moksha, then why not others? That the realm of liberation is at the top of the world is a sign of its superiority. Moksha represents the best happiness, that is why Siddhas stay in liberation all the time. Hari, Hara, Brahman and Jinavara and great saints; all these meditate on Mokhsa concentrating their minds on the pure Paramatman. It must be realized that in the three worlds there is nothing else than Moksha which brings happiness to souls. The wise sages have said that Moksha consists in the realization of Paramatman by being free from all the Karman. (1-10)
The highest and eternal fruit of Moksha is that there is infinite Darshan (faith or vision), knowledge, happiness (and strength) without being lost even for a moment. (11)
The souls attain liberation through Right Faith (or Vision), Knowledge and Conduct which really speaking consist respectively in seeing, knowing and conducting oneself by oneself. From the ordinary point of view Right Faith, Knowledge and Conduct constitute the means of Moksha, but really speaking the soul itself is all the three. The Atman sees, knows and realizes himself by himself; therefore the Atman himself is the cause of Moksha. Proper knowledge of the soul constituted of Right Faith, Knowledge and Conduct leads to spiritual purity. (12-14)
Samyagdarshan or Right Faith consists in the steady belief in the true nature of Atman resulting from the knowledge of various substances exactly as they are in the universe. Those are the six substances which fill these three worlds and which have no beginning and end. Of these six, Jiva and soul is a