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
Such psychological sublimations cannot be shown to be entirely responsible for the philosophical speculations of the master minds; it would be too sweeping a statement to assert so, but from psychoanalytic study of the human mind, it will not be dogmatic to say that the sublimations must have played a part in the theorizing even by the best minds. My attempt here is to show, from this point of view, that the Philosophic Theories might have evolved in their shapings as per psychological sublimations of those Philosophers. Samkara, Plato, Plotinus, Hegel, Spinoza possessed a strong intellectual bent of mind, with an urge of curiosity, hence they theorized in favour of 'Intellectual Idealism' and 'Absolutism'. Their abstractionist tendencies developed the Universal at the cost of the particulars. They sought for their highest happiness in the intellectual satisfaction which could be derived from such abstract metaphysical speculations. Those in whom was the predominance of the sex instinct and the feelings of parental, filial, mating love and an urge for sociability, sublimated them into the worship of God through Love (devotion-bhakti). Such were Ramānuja, Nimbārka, Madhva, Vallabha and the Vaisnava and śaiva saints of the Bhakti cult. Their Psychological Subiimations probably tended either to the transformations of the urges into Metaphysical Idealism and Absolutism or into Bhakti cult and Idolizations of some affections as Realities. They transferred their feelings to God from the worldly objects, and sought supreme satisfaction by idolizing and concretising the abstract and impersonal Reality.
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