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

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra Conclusion www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir 813 secured only by remaining steady on the unchanging Atman by acquiring the inner poise. It cannot be attained by prudently harmonising the various desires so as to yield greater pleasure and less pains, as the Epicureans and Rational Hedonists might think. Attainment of Moksa is not thus an escape of a timid man from the worldly life but it is the victory of a brave person over the temptations of the sensuous life of the world and his triumph over the deceptive world. It is a unique and rare achievement. The Indian concept of Mokṣa may thus defeat the madness of the present material civilization and may offer a new solution, a new way of life for the reorganisation of the future life of humanity. The Metaphysical Concepts of Atman and Moksa are Psychological sublimations of the respective Philosophers and Saints to a certain extent For Private And Personal In the Modern Psychology we get a new approach to the understanding of an individual by means of his 'unconscious' or 'subconscious' mind, according to the Psychoanalytic school of Sigmond Freud and his followers. According to Psychoanalysis, every individual is a frustrate, in the sense that some of his urges (which are predominantly sexual in nature) and desires are suppressed for various reasons on various occasions; but these urges, being living forces, cannot be annulled; although they are denied satisfaction in an explicit form, they remain repressed in the subconscious mind and they seek their satis

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