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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Systems of Rāmāpuja ......
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The perfect peace and bliss of the Brahman has to be experienced in all our actions, small or great. One has to live permanently in God and has to do socially useful actions by becoming completely free from ahamkāra and nescience and thus by expressing the Divine peace, beauty and joy in our day to day activities. The Bhagavadgita is thus a peculiar mixture of the various trends and therefore, it is very difficult and unjustifiable to attribute any particular system to it. However, it possesses tremendous spiritual influence and thus proves a source of great inspiration to religiously minded persons. I cannot, therefore, emphatically attribute any definite view to the Gita.
Nevertheless the Gita holds a definite view about the nature of Ātman (self). Ātman is the principle of pure consciousness and infinite power and bliss. It is in its real nature infinite, all-pervading, and perfect. It assumes the form of the world by means of its unique power of creation (Máyā) and it remains concealed from the finite souls by means of nescience. The finite souls (sta) are its manifestations; they are limited in knowledge and bliss; they suffer in the world being governed by nescience and they transmigrate since they are governed by the adrsta (cc). The jīvas are in their essence immortal and eternal but their finitude and suffering are caused by their association with the body and the adsșța. They can become free from their finitude and sufferings when they realise their originally infinite and blissful nature, by the knowledge of the Atman, by
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