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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Ātman and Moksa
still it can experience all the sensations occuring in other parts of the body. It can feel any experience occuring all over the body without any difficulty, for, it occupies the whole body by means of its knowledge or consciousness, which is its attribute just as a sandalpaste gives delight to the whole body though placed on one part of it.' Nimbārka holds like Rāmānuja that the jiva or individual soul is a possessor of knowledge and it spreads all over the body just as the light of a lamp placed in the interior of a room spreads in all the corners of the room. The soul is no doubt, constituted of intelligence (jñānasvarūpaḥ-976469) but it is not intelligence itself as S'amkara holds. On the contrary, Nimbärka maintains a difference between the two by regarding knowledge as an attribute (gunabhūtapuya) of the soul, the soul that has knowledge as its attribute as the fragrance is to the sandalwood, is different from knowledge or intelligence; it is the abode or substratum of such an attribute. Thus, he does not identify knowledge with the soul like S'amkara; he does not make the knower and the knowledge the same. On the contrary, he maintains that knowledge is its attribute (dharma) and the soul is
1 Ibid. 2.3.23.
देहैकदेशस्थः अपि कृत्स्नं देहं चन्दनबिन्दुः यथाहादयति तथा जीवः अपि प्रकाशयति ।
2 Ibid. 2.3. 25.
देहे प्रकाश: जीवगुणात् एष कोष्ठे दीपालोकादिवत् । 3 Nimbārka : Brahma Mimaṁsā Bhasya, 2.3.36. गुणभूतस्य ज्ञानस्य व्यतिरेकः तु गन्धवत् उपपद्यते एतादृशगुणाश्रयं
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