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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Mokpa
help of the proper knowledge of the soul and the world. The soul in Moksa enjoys its native infinite knowledge, infinite power, and infinite bliss. It is a bodiless sta te; all karmas being exhausted there is the eternal freedom from rebirth. It can be attained by gaining proper knowledge, perfect self-control, renunciation and by observing moral virtues like non-injury, truthfulness, self-control, love, forgiveness, contentment, etc. The Nyaya-Vais'esikas regard Moksa as a state in which the soul is thoroughly freed from the body and from consciousness. It is a state of painlessness as well as pleasurelessness. All states of consciousness come to an end in Mokşa. The soul remains without any consciousness like a stone and as a substratum of knowledge. It becomes free forever from the three kinds of karmas and so from the wheel of birth. According to these systems, Mokşa can be attained by destroying ignorance by the proper knowledge of the soul and of the world and by exercising strict control over the sense organs and by curbing all desires. The Sainkhya system holds that Moksa is a condition in which the three kinds of pain are absent, and in it the soul (Puruşa ) is completely separated from the Praksti and the Purusa enjoys its immutable state of isolation (kaivalya) by discarding all the changes of the Prakrti. In such a state karma comes to an end, the wheel of rebirth stops forever. It can be mainly done by the proper discrimination between the Purusa and the Praksti and by detaching the soul from every kind of psychical experience, by means of strict self-control,
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