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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Mokşa
and its concrete material form. The Mind is higher and more elaborate evolute of the Spirit, its essence being freedom of willing and consciousness. He holds that a grand evolution of the nature is constantly going on and the human soul is the latest evolutionary product of it. The individual soul grows rich and attains its independent character only by its interaction with the external world. Its content is formed by its interaction with the not-self and with other souls. The highest Self, however, acts as the substance and substratum of all the mental acts. The basic reality of the universe is rational and intelligent. Such an evolution of the world and souls out of the Brahman is found in the Upanisads, and Ramanuja also holds that the soul and matter are real and are evolutionary modifications of the Supreme Self, God. But Ramanuja nowhere expresses the triad of the stages of development of Hegel, i.e., the thesis, antithesis and synthesis. The Upanisadic account of the evolution from the Brahman (Atman) is different from the Hegelian evolution.
For Private And Personal
Royce, a modern metaphysician holds that the soul has an internality and it is separate and peculiar in virtue of its purpose, will, and ideal. Every soul is unique and works with its own free will; but at the same time it works out the plan of God. Every individual soul has its unique place in the divine scheme and every soul works out the ideal or purpose of God in and through God by acting freely and willingly as His expression. The individual attains his reality by realising his dependence on
