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
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Atman and Moksa
undivided and pure intelligence, being enveloped by the Nescience (avidyā) in the form of the Karmas, they possess their knowledge contracted in accordance with their deeds, and as they have entered in all the various bodies from the grass to the Brahman have their knowledge spread in accordance of the magnitudes of the those bodies respectively. They possess the pride of those bodies occupied, perform their concerned duties and enjoy their corresponding pleasures and pains issuing from them which constitute the current of the samsāra.' Thus, according to Rāmānuja the intelligence of the individual souls is subject to contraction (sankoca–#) and expansion (prasarana--hegut) in accordance with the Karma and body with which it comes to be associated due to its Karma. The original infinite intelligence of the soul is obscured, obliterated and delimited when it revolves in the state of sarásāra as long as it is governed by Karma. Therefore, it loses its omniscience and omnipotence while in samsára. While contrasting the powers of the bound souls with the released or mukta souls, Rāmānuja says
"The non-released soul has its intellectual power contracted by the influence of Karman, and hence, is incapable of that expansive pervasion without which it cannot identify itself with other bodies. The released soul, on the other hand, whose 1 Rāmānuja: Vedärtha Sangraha, p. 123.
जीवात्मानः स्वयं असंकुचित-अपरिच्छिन्न-निर्मलज्ञानस्वरूपाः सन्तः कर्मरूप-अविद्यावेष्टिताः तत्तत्कर्मानुरूपज्ञानसंकोचं आपनाः तत्-अनुगुणसुखदुःखोपभोगरूपसंसारप्रवाहं प्रतिपद्यन्ते ।
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