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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Moka
The soul (jīva) is also the agent (kartě) of actions. It possesses a separate body and sense organs for itself and it does various acts while in the saṁsāra; the actions produce certain impressions (samskāras) which bind the soul and thus the soul has to move on the wheel of birth and death to experience the consequences of its acts. The same soul which is the agent of actions (karts) remains the same and has to reap the consequences of its actions by experiencing them in an orderly manner. It has the sense of being the master (swamibhāvaḥ) of its senses and body and so, it acts also as the enjoyer (bhokts) of the results of its actions. It continues to revolve on the wheel of birth and death so long as it acts, and it acts so long as it is under spell of avidyā. Its form is distorted and obscured owing to its contact with karma which is produced by its ignorance about its real nature that it is not the body or senses or the manas, but is different from and above them, and that it is the Supreme Self, Paramātman Himself. Nimbārka further divides the jivas or souls in two kinds - (i) those that are delivered (mukta) and live in a supremely blissful condition, and (ii) those that are tied down to the circle of existences (samsāra). He again subdivides the former ones-muktas into those who are eternally in a supremely blissful condition such as Garuda, Visvakasena and the crown, earornaments, the flute considered as living beings; and
1 Nimbārka : Brahma Mimāmsā Bhasya, 2.3.33. 2 Nimbārka : Brahma Mimamsā Bhā sya, 2.4.15.
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