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
The Upanişads
Brahman. The word Yogin is derived from the verb 'to yuj' to join, to connect; one who joins his soul to the Supreme Self is a Yogin. The Yogin follows a definite prescribed way of attaining the realization of the Self. The Maitrāyani Upanisad mentions the Yogic method of penance in the following manner - “The precept for effecting this (unity) is this: restraint of the brəath (prāņāyāma), withdrawal of the senses (pratyāhára), meditation (dhyāna), concentration (dhāraņā), contemplation (tarka), absorption (samādhi). Such is said to be the sixfold Yoga."1 The Yogin by means of selflessness ultimately attains a joyous vision of the Self. He thus enters into an ultimate amalgamation with the Universal Self. In his experience of final unity he loses the sense of his separate individuality and, as there remains no element of egohood, there is none to experience the pleasure and pain with the result that the individual enjoys the absolute unity. The purification of the receptacle for such a divine grace is absolutely necessary. In an impure receptacle the grace will never flow, and if it be poured it will not be properly experienced. So the purification of mind has to be brought about by making it free from all desires, which presuppose egohood. The Maitrāyani Upanişad describes mind as
“Pure — from desire completely free!
By making mind all motionless, From sloth and from distraction freed,
Maitrāyani Up. 6.8. 2 Ibid. 6.21.
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