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
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in kind from their life that they lived on the earth. Their ideal was simple and within their reach.
The Vedic thinkers strove to attain immortality after death. Their desire for immortality and their idea of the perfect life at which they aimed are expressed in the following prayer ---- "O Pavamāna, place me in that deathless, updecaying world
wherein the light of heaven is set and everlasting
lustre shines. Flow, Indu, flow for Indra's sake. Make me immortal in that realm where dwells the King,
Vivasvan's Son. Where is the secret shrine of heaven, where are those
waters young and fresh.... Make me immortal in that realm where they move even
as they list, In the third sphere of inmost heaven where lucid worlds
are full of light.... Make me immortal in that realm of eager wish and
stronger desire The reign of the radiant moon, where food and full delight
are found, Make me immortal in that realm where happiness and
transports, where Joys and felicities combine, and longing wishes are fulfilled."' !
From the passage mentioned above it becomes clear that the RgVedic thinkers have irrepressible desire for freedom, joy, immortality and light. They
1 Griffith : The Hymns of the Rg Veda. Ř.V.-IX, 113.7 to 11. Tr. Vol. II, pp. 381-382.
यत्रानन्दाश्च मोदाश्च मुदः प्रमुद आसते। कामस्य यत्राप्ताः कामास्तत्र माममृतं कृधि ।
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