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and craving, for it produces bondage, and thus, one's freedom is lost by being entangled in their meshes. No passion can exist in the state of liberation as it leads astray the soul from its real state of peace. The liberated person is said to have fulfilled all his desires. But the Sarvadars'anasangraha says -- "the 'fulfilment of desires' here means 'absence of all the desires'. In liberation, when there cannot be the desire of the person who is devoid of the body and senses, how can there be the fulfilment of desire?”Vätsyāyana in his commentary states - "In liberation the seed of all pain and the resort or dwelling place of pain is destroyed, hence there is complete emancipation of pain; pain cannot originate without a seed and cannot exist without a resort." Thus, the Nyāya Vais'eșikas advocate the uprooting of the first and ultimate cause or seed of suffering. Jayanta Bhatta states in his Nyāya Manjari “The pain as effect is destroyed when its cause that produces it is destroyed. If its cause exists in the successive births, pain always exists. Therefore the tendency (pravịtti) which produces the pain in many births deserves to be destroyed.”3 After making a thorough analysis of the occurrence of pain its root cause is traced to misapprehension or false notions about the nature of the soul and the reality. In the removal of such misapprehension lies the hope of the attainment of liberation.
1 Sarvadars'anasangraha (Com.), p. 250.
2 The Gotama Nyiya Sūtras (Sanskrit), Com. Sūtra 43 (Vātsyāyana ).
3 Bhasta Jayanta : Nyāya Manjari, p. 508.
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