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
Sāṁkhya
365
different from always.... being intent on getting rid of the sufferings inherent in life on earth. Kapila vidently meant by Duḥkha or pain something inore than physical or even mental suffering, namely the consciousness of being conditioned, limited, or fettered, which is inseparable from this life." !
Thus, Max Müller restricts the meaning of duḥkha not to the physical and mental pain and suffering, but he stretches it to the pain of finitude itself. The earthly life can never give infinite and unbounded joy. Kapila might have extended the meaning of liberation to a sense of infinite freedom and unrestrictedness from which the sense of limitation and bondage of any sort has entirely disappeared. But it is not positively stated. Kapila means by Kaivalya simply severence of all the connections of the Purusa with the Praksti. It is clearly stated in the Sankhya Kārikā - "For the perception of Nature by the spirit and for the Isolation of the spirit, there is union of both, — like that of the halt and the blind, and from this union proceeds Evolution? Thus, liberation consists in a complete separation of the Puruşa from the Prakiti. In liberation nothing else is done but wrong ideas of the soul arising out of its identification with the various products of the Prakrti are removed and, the Purusa shines then in its solitary glory. Richard Garbe in the introduction of the Sāmkhya Sūtras with Aniruddha's commentary says“The liberation of the Ātman is, according to
1 Ibid. p. 390.
Mis'ra Vācaspati : Sāmkhya Karikā, XII. See Tattva Kaumudi, Section 138. Tr. Ganganath Jha,
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