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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Moksa
so, the fundamental attraction of things to the souls is nothing but the attraction of the Self to itself, to realise itself in and through its manifold manifestations. As Aurobindo says, it is a game of hide and seek of the Self with its own disguised forms. It is a kind of Līlā (aster-sport) of the Self. The truth of the saying of the Brhadaranyaka Upanişad is highly significant in this respect. As Yajñā valkya says "all this is dear for the sake of the Self itself.” Thus, the real meaning of the attractions of the worldly objects and their attachments is to be understood as the Self's desire to find itself, and to reunite with itself as expressed in the infinite number of objects of various names and forms. All this finally leads to the necessity for the understanding of the proper nature of the Self that seeks satisfaction in the various forms, but fails to secure it because of its wrong approach. The real and perfect satisfaction can be reached when the Self finds itself or when humanity attains the realisation of the Self to the fullest extent in the real sense. As long as the Self does not find itself or there is no real self-realisation, all the numerous efforts of the present civilisation to secure everlasting peace, happiness, and satisfaction for the humanity by multiplying the external physical and psychical means of happiness are bound to meet with failure. Samkara's concept of Moksa is nothing else but the enjoyment of the perfect bliss, the perfect knowledge, and the perfect freedom by realising the infinite nature of the Self which is nothing else but the whole Reality. When
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