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It might be additionally argued that at the time of moksa a soul does not have knowledge because there is then in it a cessation of all desire to see (i. e. to know) things; but to argue that way will not be proper, for in case there is in a soul a cessation of all desire to see things it should cease to desire to see itself as well (so that if this cessation prevents a soul from knowing other things it should prevent it from knowing itself as well), while on the Sankhya philosoper's own position a soul is of the form of consciousness (and should therefore never cease to know itself).
चैतन्यं चेह संशुद्धं स्थितं सर्वस्य वेदकम् ।
तन्त्रे ज्ञाननिपेधस्तु प्राकृतापेक्षया भवेत् ॥ ४५६॥
caitanyam ceha samsuddaṁ sthitaṁ sarvasya vedakam ! tantre jñānanişedhas tu prākṛlāpekṣaya bhavet ||456||
At the time of moksa a soul, being of the form of purified conscious. ness, proves to be a knower of all knowables whatsoever; and when the scriptural texts (of the Sankhya school) deny knowledge to a liberated soul they must be speaking of the ordinary worldly knowledge (which is too often mistaken.)
आत्मदर्शनतश्च स्यान्मुक्तिर्यत् तन्त्रनीतितः ।
तदस्य ज्ञानसद्भावस्तन्त्रयुक्त्यैव साघितः ||४५७||
atmadarsanatas ca syan muktir yat tantranititah |
tad asya jñanasadbhāvas tantrayuktyaiva sadhitaḥ 1/457||
Moreover, since the scriptural texts in question themselves declare that a soul attains mokşa through self-knowledge it follows that these texts themselves lend support to the position that a soul possesses knowledge at the time of moksa.
(5) The Doctrine of No-Soul Refuted:
नैरात्म्यदर्शनादन्ये निबन्धननियोगतः ।
दोषप्रहाणमिच्छन्ति सर्वथा न्याययोगिनः || ४५८॥
nairalmyadarsanad anye nibandhananiyogataḥ | dosaprahānam icchanti sarvathanyayayoginah ||458||
Certain thinkers, mainly relying on logic, maintain that the wholesale elimination of spiritual deficiencies comes about as a result of realizing the correctness of the doctrine of no-soul and this on the alleged ground that such a realization serves to remove the cause of the deficiencies in question,
