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
writes"The sorrow of the Buddha is nothing else but the perception of the transiency of all that has arisen.... Life and transiency become synonymous ideas; whether the life be an earthly or a heavenly one makes no difference whatever; life and transiency are one and the same." Thus sorrow being transient and momentary like the Self both become the same. He further says-"Sorrow must be understood to be transiency and not-I."2 Sorrow is thus invariably attached to the feeling of 'I'-hood. So long as one feels his own existence he experiences sorrow. The cessation of the experience of egohood also becomes the cessation of the experience of sorrow and suffering in one's life.
Atman and Mokşa
Dahlke thus continues and says "Sorrow is real only so long as life is real-that is, so long as this corporeality is looked upon as a true, soul-endowed I. The reality of sorrow falls along with the reality of the I. When the I is perceived to be illusion the sorrow also is perceived to be illusion. Sorrow is the result of ignorance."3 So long as a man experiences his own life, so long as he cherishes desires, the desires being certainly to be met with disappointment, sorrow necessarily follows. A right understanding of sorrow, thus, leads to the complete abrogation of sorrow. Sorrow is thus a necessary consequent of ignorance. Dahlke says "Where there is no willing, there is no desire, no gratification, no
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1 Dahlke Paul Buddhist Essays, pp. 68-69. 2 Ibid. p. 73.
Ibid. p. 74.