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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Mokşa
them to receive in the best possible way the influx of the knowledge of the Self. He prepares his soil favourable for the growth of the divine-seed. He purifies his apparatus to receive the divine light in. He purifies his organism in such a way that the internal light of his Self becomes visible through it. This preparation ultimately comes to the curtailment and annihilation of many of the egoistic tendencies and activities of the individual. In fact, the ego, the overgrown and thick sense of his own limited personality makes his personality opaque and thus deprives him of the vision of his own light. The egoistic tendencies, therefore, need to be annihilated to enable him to make his personality infinite. Thus, it is said in the Mundakopanisad that the moral Katharsis of oneself is necessary. The Mundaka Upanisad therefore clearly and emphati. cally says "It is only when a perfect Katharsis of the whole moral being takes place by the clearness of illumination, that one is able to realise the immaculate God after meditation; for he can be attained neither by sight, nor by word of mouth, nor by any other sense, nor by penance, nor by any actions whatsoever."! The Self, though immanent in the body, has to be extracted from it by vigilant practice of virtues and serious reflective thinking.
By a proper control over the senses and the activities of the mind, by withdrawing himself from the external world and by concentrating on the ultimate Reality, the Yogin attains union with the
1 Mun aka Up. 3.1.8.
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