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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Mokşa
like cause and effect. All works and all sufferings have now ceased, even what is to be known becomes smaller and smaller, the very Guņas, i.e., Prakṛti, having done their work, cease troubling; Purusa becomes himself, is independent, undisturbed, free and blessed."1
For Private And Personal
The Purusas being infinite, each one attains such isolation for itself. The Purusa gets completely isolated from the Prakṛti so far it is concerned, and it then rests in its own isolated state and enjoys supreme peace that is inherent in it. It thinks of nothing, not even of itself in its state of isolation. But the Prakyti does not come to stop its working as other Purusas are attached to it, and they enjoy it. Several other Purusas are in bondage simultaneously, and for their purpose, the Prakṛti cannot cease to function. In the attainment of liberation nothing is annihilated; the Puruşa and Prakṛti both being eternal, cannot come to an end. They continue to live quite in separation from each other. As other Purusas enjoy the same Prakṛti, it cannot dwindle or recoil in itself; but as the Purusa severes its connections with the Prakṛti in its individual case, it becomes eternally free from all the pleasures and pains of the worldly life. It rests in its own nature. As Patanjali says "There is involution of the Attributes when there is no further purpose of the Spirit to be served by them; and this is Isolation; or it may be defined as the abidance of the sentient spirit
1 Max Müller: The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, p. 471.
