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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
CHAPTER XIII
CONCLUSION
(a) A synthetic account of the concepts of
Ātman and Moksa in different systems
It is necessary at the final stage to weave together all the different ideas of 'Ātman'and' Mokşa' scattered in all the different systems of Indian Philosophy, and to arrange them in an orderly way, and to trace a line of continuous development in them. So far, in all the previous chapters a detailed account of the ideas of 'Ātman' and 'Moksa' has already been given, and hence, it will be a monotonous repetition if they are again dealt with in their details. At the same time it is necessary to bring them together and to know them at a glance simultaneously and synthetically to understand the kind of evolution that these ideas have undergone. I propose now to take such a synthetic view of these ideas by bringing their broad features together, and by linking them properly.
It is a fact (as it has become evident from the discussion in the previous chapters) that no two systems hold identical view of Ātman and Moksa, and that their ideas have gradually evolved in
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