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Atman and Moksa
condition briefly is the condition of Brahman, and whoever has unbroken devotion to Me will attain it. Equanimity arising out of wisdom and devotion towards Me, would lead a man to Me. Not only in this condition of Brahman but it is also what is called Mokṣa (liberation)." This is Jñanes'vara's idea of Moksa or liberation. It is a distinctionless and unitive experience of the Brahman where everything is Brahman and all particulars are inseparable expressions of the same Brahman and knowledge of distinctions which is ignorance, comes to an end. L. R. Pangarkar, a famous scholar of the literature of Saints in Maharashtra remarks- "We call it bhakti (devotion) when one's vision enlarges by the experience of the unity of Brahman, universe and jiva. The perfection of knowledge is such a devotion and the end of Yoga also is this devotion. Bhakti (devotion), Jñāna (knowledge) and Yoga (spiritual practices) become here one. To rest all the states of consciousness in the Parama Puruşa (Supreme Self) is called bhakti, jñāna and Yoga. This condition is known as Brahmatva, Sayujya, Mokṣa, Parabhakti and Abhedabhakti."
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Jñanes'vara describes such a state most eloquently as in the following passage. It is a state in which the immutable (aksara) and the mutable (kṣara-M) are united. Even the experience 'That I am disappears in it....the seer and the seen lose their distinction and one experiences only that (Brahman).
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1 Subedar Manu: Jñanes'vari (English Tr.), XIV. 392-404 (Tr.) p. 231.
2 Pangarkar Marathi Vangmayacha Itihasa, Vol. I, p. 707.
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