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 Vedas
The word Jīva, though used a number of times, according to Sayaņa it is used twice to denote the 'individual soul' and also in the sense of life'.! Jīva means the active and animating principle of the individual, in whose body it resides. Similarly in the latter part of another hymn it is referred to as the “immortal principle' which continues to live by subsisting itself in the offering of manas of the human body. According to Sāyaṇa the entire hymn drives to the meaning, that the human body is without essence, and the animating principle, which dwells in it, is eternal.
The word Prāna also is derived from the root an-'to breathe' and, therefore, it must have been related to Atman. Here a reference is made to Hiraṇyagarbha who is described as the "Giver of vital breath of power and vigour.... The Lord of death, whose shade is life immortal. .... who by his grandeur has become Sole Ruler of aii, the moving world that breathes and slumbers." * Hiranyagarbha (feroga) is described as the world-soul to whom the individual soul owes its powers and knowledge. The universal soul, also described as the Purusa is the embodied spirit, or Man personified and regarded as the soul and original source of the
1 Griffith R. T. H. (Tr.) : The Hymns of the RgVeda (RgVeda-1, 113.16; 164.30). Tr. Vol. I, pp. 151, 224.
2 Ibid. (R.V. 18.8). Tr. Vol. II, p. 407.
3 Ibid. R.V.-1, 66.1. Tr. Vol. I, p. 90; R.V.-X, 59.6, Vol. II, p. 463.
4 Griffith R. T. H. (Tr.): The Hymns of the RgVeda. R.V.-X, 121.2-3. Tr. Vol. II, p. 566.
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