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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Upanişads
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aims which can be called submoral. One who utilises his power for such low aims - of selfishness at the cost of others-is called a tyrant, a merciless despot, with no power of discrimination and with no desire for higher spiritual attainments. The liberated soul, as depicted by the Upanisads, attains perfection, in which all desires are eternally fulfilled, and therefore, there is absolutely no lear, of his entertaining any kind of low desires. To him, everything, which we ordinarily suppose to be very valuable, is only ' lowly and unworthy of his desire. Even the so called
ethically good' things of our world, are quite limited and superfluous to him and such good things of the world in which he freely moves, can never tempt him, in the least. He, in a way, looks upon them with some contempt, in the sense that he is too big to be moved by them. They no more remain worthy of his pursuit of them. He transcends all limitations and the domain of conditionality and relativity, and resides in the realm of the Absolute, by being one with the Absolute.
So far we have examined the real nature of the Upanişadic liberation; but we find in them also certain references of the different kinds of worlds to which the soul departs after the cessation of the earthly-lise. It is necessary to consider briefly the peculiar and mythical ideas about the state of the individual after his death. The Chandogya Upanişad says, “Those who know this seven though) they still be grihasthas (householders) and those who in the forest follow faith and austerities (the vānaprasthas)
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