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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Mokpa
Prabhākaras in holding that the experience is the root cause of bondage, and dharma and adharma, which for being exhausted by being experienced by the doer, lead to future birth. Therefore, in order to attain a painless condition one has to exhaust the previous stock of accumulated Karma by experiencing it, and has to prevent the influx of new Karma so that it may not bind him even in the future. Kumārila therefore holds that in the state of liberation the soul exists in its natural condition which is characterised by the potency of knowledge and energy. Its forms of consciousness like cognition or intellect, pleasure, pain, desire, aversion, effort, the impressions, merit and demerit are destroyed. The soul lies in its natural condition (Svastha ).
The Vedānta holds that knowledge can burn the old stock of afara Karma but Kumārila does not seem to agree with it in this respect; however, he holds like it that knowledge helps the prevention of the accumulation of new Karma and leads to the stoppage of further embodiment of the Soul. Knowledge plays, according to Kumārila, only a negative role of preventing the accumulation of new Karma, but he also holds that knowledge cannot lead to the expiation of past Karma, which can be brought about only by experiencing it. He finds thus the necessity of knowledge to be employed for the arrest of future Karma (TAT). He does not neglect the importance of knowledge for the attainment of release though he lays greater stress on duties.
1 S'āstradi pikā -- See Muktisvarūpakathanam, 11•1•5, p. 130.
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