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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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evident. The Purusa is not the agent of actions (Kartā), but is supposed to be the enjoyer (bhokts) of pleasure and pain. But in reality, all the changing experiences belong to the Praksti with special reference to buddhi and to egoity (ahamkāra). The soul is falsely supposed to be the transmigrating soul, but really it is unchanging and stands only as the principle of pure sentience. The Pūrva-Mimaisā system attributes all the relevant characteristics to the soul while it lives in the world. It is all-pervading; but it is not constituted of consciousness. Consciousness is its attribute which is absent in its pure state. It is jada (non-sentient), according to Prabhākaras, but it retains only the potency of liberation, according to Kumārila. Consciousness being its adventitious attribute arises in it only when it is connected with the manas and sense organs. The soul transmigrates as it is the agent (kartā), the enjoyer of pleasure and pain (bhokta), and the knower (jñātā) while in the world.
The Advaita Vedanta holds that the soul is not different from the Brahman or the Self which is the self of all things. It is infinite, eternal, everfree, pure and perfect. It is characterized as saccidānanda. It is the source, support, and end of all the particular things. The soul is really the Self but it appears in the form of the worldly soul that is the kartā and bhoktā, is governed by nescience, is finite due to the adjuncts (upādhis) which are stuck to it due to nescience. The soul in its pure nature is never born nor does it die. It
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