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 Systems of Rāmānuja ....
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aspect it remains for ever pure; it is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and possesses immense bliss, self-glory, immortality and pervasiveness. It is full of bliss ( 871 ) and is independent (FCT). The world is an effect in the sense that it is absolutely dependent (acetong or gaa) on the Brahman for its origin and existence. The Brahman alone is svatantra, self-dependent or independent in so far as it is self-subsistent. It does not require any other source and support for itself, and for its origin and existence. It is self-originated and the support of itself. It is the ultimate eternal Being beyond which nothing exists. All the particular finite things are but its creations or effects in so far as it is their underlying substantial nature and they are dependent for their origin and subsistence upon the Brahman; they also return to it at their end. They are therefore dependent (977) as they are governed (niyāmyatva) by the Supreme Self or the Brahman. They cannot exist apart from the Brahman. In pralaya (577) or in the pre-creation state they potentially exist in the Brahman and become actualised in the visible concrete form due to the wonderful creative power (asādhāra ja sakti-3TATETRUT TEI) of the Brahman, just as a piece of cloth becomes visible with its expanse (prasārita-gata) when it is unrolled.? In all the forms the universe exists in the Brahman and the Brahman exists in it as its innermost reality
1 Nimbārka : Brahma Mimamsä Bhāsya, 1.3.9. 2 Ibid. 2•1•18. यथा च पूर्वसंवेष्टितः पश्चात्प्रसारितः पट. तद्वत् विश्वम् ।
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