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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Moksa
described as the truth, good, blissful, consciousness immortal, pure and free. It is the Supreme Reality and the first and the last thing of the universe. Nothing can be outside it. It is all and still it is not any one particular thing of the world. It is unique and incomparable. It is beyond description since words are incapable of grasping and describing it. It is incomprehensible because it is similar to nothing other than itself. It is beyond all distinctions and relations. It is, therefore, far from the relative world. It cannot be understood in terms of any worldly thing with which we are familiar. It being unique, nothing is similar to it. Being the cause and source of all, it transcends all its effects either great or small in magnitude. Nothing is equal to it. It is infinite and perfect. It is pure, free from imperfections and, therefore, free from desires which cause discontent and restlessness. Being perfect, it has no desire to acquire anything. It is ever-satisfied. It is the eternal spirit, immutable, intelligent, pure, unconditioned, self-same, self-satisfied and free from fear, desire and restlessness. It being perfect, its realisation brings unending bliss and everlasting peace to the individual soul.
All sorts of ideas about the Ātman are scattered in the Upanişads. The Ātman appears as the principle of vitality (prāņa-5ToT) as it is found in the Vedas. The human body is composed of the bones, flesh, blood and the sense organs. The Kausitaki Upanisad describes the pre-eminence of the prāņa, the vital principle over all other sense organs and thus states that the soul of man must be this principle of
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