STUDY GROUP on SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTON Ch4V11

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STUDY GROUP on SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTON

 

CHAPTER 4

ATTAINMENT

Arudha

 

V11.

Q. If this is the nature of Liberation (moksha) why do some

scriptures connect it with the body and say that the

individual soul can attain Liberation only when it does

not leave the body?

 

M. It is only if bondage is real that Liberation and the nature

of its experiences have to be considered. So far as the Self

(Purusha) is concerned it has really no bondage in any of the

four states. As bondage is merely a verbal assumption according

to the emphatic proclamation of the Vedanta system, how can the

question of Liberation, which depends upon the question of

bondage, arise when there is no bondage? Without knowing this

truth, to enquire into the nature of bondage and Liberation, is

like enquiring into the non-existent height, colour, etc., of a

barren woman's son or the horns of a hare.

 

 

 

 

 

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