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
Atman and Məkşa
world only to ideas and sensations. The corporeal world melts into ideas in the philosophy of Berkeley. Similarly, the Vijñānavādins reduce the whole world simply to mental ideas and regard the latter as the ultimately real things. Our ideas themselves appear to exist as external objects. It is plainly said in Alambana Parikṣa that "It is, therefore, rationally deduced that the objects of different sensual cognitions do not exist externally... It is the object (artha) which exists internally in knowledge itself as a knowable aspect and which appears to us as if it exists externally... Though the external things are denied, what exists internally is knowledge itself (ie., its knowable aspect) and appears to us as though it is existent externally serves as a condition of the actual object, alambana pratyaya (to consciousness). Thus, the external objects cannot exist apart from the knowing consciousness. The external objects do not have independent existence of their own. The so called objects are constituted of ideas. Thus, the whole world is contained in our thinking, and hence is ideal (sarvam buddhimayam jagat). No external world exists apart from our consciousness. It is said "Because consciousness is the essence (of the external object) and that (object essence of which is consciousness) acts as the condition (to consciousness)... The Internal consciousness appears as (manifold external) object (artha) and also arises from that (objective aspect of its own). Thus, the
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1 Dinnaga of Dharmapāla: Alambana Parikṣā and Vṛtti, pp. 48-49.
2 Ibid. p. 49.
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