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LIBERATION OR NIRVAN
This inspires to know the nature of the Highest God, attainment of which is the ultimate aim of
mysticism. Jaina system has not lost itself in the quagmire of idealism, it neither envisages an all
embracing Infinite Absolute like Hegel (quality less Brahman of Sankar) nor any personal God.
Nevertheless, by showing the way towards the divine elevation of
common people, ideal statehood is said
to have been realized. Emancipated
persons attaining moksha are siddha, omniscient
and omnipotent, embodiment of faith, truth and culture.
They are not Divine,
communion can be held.
Emancipation implies total destruction of the
influence of karma in one's life and soul. Right
knowledge and Right conduct are the
factors in elevating individual soul to
the state of Omniscience
and Beatitude, in 'Gunasthana'
classification of the stages
Conscience and Faith are
penultimate. You in the state of perfect bliss there is neither constitutional knowledge nor conduct, right or
otherwise, as a liberated soul leaves everything behind because
of their relation with karma in difference and in resemblance, including those which help the
final attainment.
Nirvan is no ordinary heaven. The hyper
physical region to which a liberated soul is entitled to go is that part
of the universe where perfect equanimity and infinite joy pervade top of the universe should not
taken in literal sense. It signifies quintessence of our universe,
complete release from the causes of bondage and unnecessary attraction. Soul the infinite part of
one's being retains its individuality intact in enjoying supreme bliss and in no way is either destroyed as the
Buddhist hold or merged within the
identity of the Supreme Reality as the monists say. The delight of the individual is
incomprehensible if soul is annihilated.
What remains if soul is
gone to feel or live.
Disappearance of individual soul
within the supreme does not lead us
anywhere either as it becomes meaningless for the individual enjoyment in peace after it
retains its identity no more.
REALITY IS
FREEDOM
A single strain of freedom entire, satiating and
beatific, absorbing and complacent runs throughout Jaina
mysticism. Like eminent mystic processes Jainism says
little in regard to the state of beatitude and so
much of ways leading to it.
Constant and continuous mystic aspiration as the
ideal state realizable in experience and faith
without much ado about Divine Person possessed
autocratic superhuman power and inscrutable methods
has done away with the ultimate
static automaton of the common religious
systems. Establishment of ethical independence and moral
responsibility is feasible only when the way to perpetual
enterprise for hope and confidence is open, human faith
and optimism are not sacrificed at the altar of an
inexorable infinite whole. This is possible in
mystical religions Jaina faith with its dynamic
righteousness, inspiring worship and an
universal brotherhood has full claim to be mystic not as a
taciturn and enigmatic creed of
mere intellectuals but a faith where self-realization is
undertaken through self-rule and internal
control.
BIBLIOGRAPHY :-
Mrs. Stephenson : The Heart of Jainism, P.C.
Nahar & Krishnachandra Gosh :
An Epitome of Jainsm, Kolkata - 17.
Wycliff Vaughan : Hours with the Mystics.
R.D. Ranade : Mysticism in Maharashtra, Poona.
E. Underhill : Essential of Mysticism, Lond, 1920.
H bergson : Two Sources of Morality and Religion.
M.K. Mukerjee : Mysticism and Ramkrishna, in Prabuddha Bharata
Vols. LXII & LXIII.
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