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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Moka
the infinite bliss of Brahman. The bliss being unique and infinite, is not descriable in terms of any number. It being unique, nothing is like it and therefore, it cannot be understood in terms of any other kind of earthly joy with which human beings are familiar. It is a joy of an entirely different category. But the above description of it may help us, at least to get a faint idea of the Brahman's bliss.
The Taittiriya Upanişad says-- "When he finds freedom from fear and rest in that which is invisible, incorporeal, undefined, unsupported, then he has obtained the leirless. For, if he makes but the smallest distinction in it, there is fear for him. But fear exists only for one who thinks himself wise (not for the true sage .' Thus it is repeatedly stated that, on getting the vision of the Ātman the individual becomes completely free from fear; because there is left no other person or thing of which he can be afraid. The Chandogya Upanisad says -- "Those who go hence without here having found the Soul (Ātman) and those real desires ( satya kāma ) - for them in all the worlds there is no freedom. But those who go hence having found here the Soul and those real desires -- for them in all worlds, there is freedom."? It is not only a freedom from misery, pain and sorrow, which may be called the outcomes of finitude; but there is the joy of fullness of life and perfection. In liberation the enjoyer and the enjoyment are one and the same. As it is a state
1 Taitt. Up. 2.8. 2 Ch. Up. 8.1.6.
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