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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atmap and Moksa:
experience of S'iva. Ignorance, therefore, becomes equivalent to partial knowledge and limited powers. Illusion, therefore, is neither in God nor in man.' God cannot have the vision of man although He is the cause of man and his experience. The experience of the jiva, though limited, is real, but out of ignorance it thinks that it is the agent or doer of actions; it does not recognise S'akti as the real agent of all actions. Its bondage is, therefore, caused by ignorance.
The Jiva, the finite soul can attain liberation by removing from its mind the ignorance which consists in falsely identifying its real nature with what it is not. It must realise by knowledge and spiritual insight that it is reality the pure consciousness (Prakās'astater), and its limitations are not real. “Knowledge of S'akti is the road to salvation, which is dissolution in the blissful effulgence of the Supreme. Liberation, according to the S'aktas, is not dependent on the observance of the external forms of religion like recitation of hymns, sacrifices, and other rituals. What is necessary for the attainment of liberation is the knowledge for jiva that it is an evolute of Sakti, and is, in essence, identical with it; and Bhakti or devotion along with the physical and mental discipline help it.? The S'āktas admit the possibility of the Jivanmukta and believe in the doctrine of transmigration of the soul.
1 Woodroffe John : Shakti and Shā kta, p. 44; 2 Radhakrishnan. S. : Indian Philosophy, Vol. II, pp. 736, 737.
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