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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Mokşa
soul becomes eternally free from the accumulated stock of Karma () it is no more required to come back to the samsara and to lead its transmigratory existence. As the released soul has freed itself from the bondage of Karma, has its powers of knowledge fully developed, and has all its being in the supremely blissful intuition of the highest Brahman, it evidently cannot desire anything else nor enter on any other form of activity, and the idea of its returning into the samsara, therefore, is altogether excluded. Nor indeed need we fear that the Supreme Lord, when once having taken to Himself the devotee whom He greatly loves will turn him back into the samsāra.' The released soul is naturally free for ever from the subtle body which exists as long as the desert does not come to an end; but as there is no desert to be experienced and the soul is no more required to come to the worldly life, the subtle body also disappears from it for ever.
According to Rāmānuja, the jiva or the individual soul becomes not only free from the sufferings and imperfections of the wordly life in Mokşa, but it enjoys the highest bliss and all the infinite auspicious qualities of the Divine. The individual enjoys the company and grace of the Paramatman or Nārāyana, who is described as the most magnanimous personality possessing eminence, highest beauty, perfect brilliance, immense mercy and love, profound blessedness, infinite knowledge, and unsurpassable power. Such a highest Self is the object of enjoyment 1 Rāmānuja-Com. on Vedanta Sutras. Tr. Thibaut, 4.4.22,
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