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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Mokça
of the infinitude of the Spirit by realising identity with it and by looking upon every other thing as a manifestation of the infinite Spirit. Schopenhauer was a thorough-going pessimist giving more stress on pain rather than on pleasure. According to him, life consists in the will to live, and egoity is the source of pain. As long as there is the consciousness of one's narrow ego, suffering is inevitable. He, therefore, advocates art (music) in which one forgets oneself, sympathy-in which one transcends one's narrow egohood, and the negation of the will-to-live by means of indifference to self-preservation and renunciation as the means of deliverance from the bonda e of the worldly life. His standpoint is similar to the Buddhist Nirvaṇa which also is the deliverance from the sufferings of the worldly life. Royce --- being an Absolutist-holds that the freedom of the individual is experienced in the real sense when the individual realises his inalienable union with and dependence on God. In the final union with God the individual is not lost, but he is retained in the wider being of God. The finitude of the individual is lost as the personality attains infinitization. The individual no longer exists as an entirely separate entity but he acts and lives as an inseparable organic part of the whole and realises the infinite nature of the Absolute which realises itself in and through the finite centres. The Absolute, being above ali spatiotemporal existence and its changes, is not affected by them. The individual enjoys the highest freedom and the joy of liberation when he experiences
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