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
Ātman and Mokaa
and indulge in those evil desires, which act as prohibitory to liberation. Due to such evil desires they obtain suitable gross bodies and engage themselves in condemnable activities (nindita karma) and thus go to the lower species (nicayoni). They ever remain worldly miserable souls. They always move in the sub-human, devilish (asuri-811927) species and always suffer degeneration (adhamāṁgati). They acquire purity and attain the status of pure souls (s'uddha jivas) when God himself pleases to sport with them, He shows compassion to them and relieves them of the ignorance (avidyā). Thus, their defects are removed and they become the pure souls (s'uddha jivāḥ-yautar:). In them intelligence and bliss (cit and ananda) manifest fully.'
The jivas that possess the divine nature are again of two kinds --(i) the maryādāmārgiyāḥ or maryādājivāḥ (Fulcrarffent: or Hufgrafiar:) and (ii) the puşțimärgiyāḥ (grearifar: or pustijivāḥ-gfestat:). Those who subject themselves to certain moral discipline are known as the maryādājivāḥ, and those who depend entirely on God's grace are the pusțijivāḥ. Both the kinds of the souls attain the final deliverance, but by two different paths. The maryādāmārgiya (Huffmanoffe) jivas are distinguished by their following the path of knowledge, karma, religious and moral duties, bhakti-concentrated devotion, and the Yogic practices as prescribed by the scriptures. The Pustimārgiya (gfearaitu) jivas solely depend upon God for His grace and favour (vis'eşānugraha (faztaigne)
1 Bhatta Balkrishna : Prame'ya Ratnarnava, pp. 8, 9.
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