tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Mokoa
tranquillity of mind. It is said in the Maitra yani Upanişad --“For, by tranquillity (prasāda ) of thought, Deeds. (Karman), good and evil, one destroys. With soul serene, stayed on the Soul, Delight eternal one enjoys."! Thus, the freshness of the delight that is enjoyed never withers nor fades. Such a soul is described as follows --"Ilenceforth being pure, clean, void, tranquil, breathless, selfless, endless, undecaying, steadfast, eternal, unborn, independent, he abides in his own greatness."'? Going further the same Upavisad clarifies the point in it more elaborate way in the following manner — "Born along and defiled by the stream of Qualities, unsteady, wavering, bewildered, full of desire, distracted, one goes on into the state of self conceit. . . Hence a person who has the marks of determination, conception, and self-conceit, he is bound. Hence, in being the opposite of that, he is liberated. Therefore, one should stand free from determination, free from conception, free from selfconceit. This is the mark of liberation (moksa).. therein all desires are contained. When cease the five,
(Sense) knowledges, together with the mind, And the intellect stirs pot - That, they say, is the highest course.”3
All the Upanisads testify to this idea of liberation which consists in an absolute cessation of pain and suffering which is characteristic of finitude, by overcoming all dualities and distinctions and by
1 Maitrāyaṇi Up. 5.34, 2 Ibid. 6.28. 3 Ibid, 6.30.
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