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Atman and Mokpa .
removal of false knowledge. Even the different names given to the supreme bliss promised by each philosophy tell us very little. Mukti and Moksa mean deliverance, Kaivalya, isolation or detachment, Nih. sreyas, non plus ultra, Amrita, immortality, Apavarga, delivery. Nor does the well known Buddhist term Nirvāṇa help us much."
Liberation according to the Nyāya Vais'eşikas seem to be completely free from any element of positivity. It is devoid of merit as well as demerit (Adharma). As it is entirely free from sin at the same time it is also free from punya or good works. It is negative in its character in so far as nothing remains in that state. The Nyāya soul does not intrinsically possess consciousness as a part of its basic nature. It is free from sentience and even consciousness. The soul in its original and natural state is therefore, devoid of consciousness and knowledge. Udayanācārya says in his Laksanāvali “The soul is absolutely devoid of knowledge. Knowledge takes its resort only as its attribute."? The Nyāya system thus, clearly holds that in the state of liberation there cannot exist any trace of any psychical character either in the form of knowledge or sentience, desire or effort, pleasure or pain if it is a state of the realisation of the soul in its natural and real form since all such psychical attributes arise in the soul only after it is connected to the physical body. Max Müller brings out its negative character in his
1 Max Müller : The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, p. 488.
2 Udayanācārya : Laksaņāvali, p. 7.
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