Book Title: tman_and_moksa
Author(s): G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir 800 Ātman and Moka of Madhva, and as parts and companions in the divine Līlā of Kțsna in the S'uddhāvaita of Vallabha. Complete identification with the Supreme Self by submerging and dissolving of soul in it is not existent anywhere in the Western Absolutism, as we find it in the Absolutism of Samkara and to some extent in Jñanesvara. The Neo-Realist and the Materialist view that consciousness, mind, and intellect are the evolutionary products of matter is similar to the Carvaka view which regards that consciousness is an attribute of the body. Bergson in general believes in the 'Creative Evolution of life which is indesignate and it assumes definite forms of manifold nature in the course of the evolution for a mutual and successful adaptation of its various forms among themselves. The new forms which emerge are not predetermined by any body or by any supernatural agency. Those forms which suit properly for the onward movement of Life become stable and others are eliminated. There is a complete indeterminism in the Bergsonian Creative Evolution; consciousness, sensibility, mind, and intelligence are the progressive evolutes of life. Llyod Morgan believes in the 'Emergent Evolution' and holds that new elements evolve in the course of the evolution of nature. There are no set and definite directions in which the evolution is taking place. S. Alexander, however, believes in a 'Teleological Evolution of the universe and believes that the Self is not a fixed thing; its content is under a change; the Self is a changing entity which includes in it body and egoity (the sense of 'I' and 'mine'). It increases in its For Private And Personal

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