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Hence man anxiously
looks forward to a state of supreme bliss beyond earthly existence. "To whom has been
the lot to be happy till the end?" Hence our great sages and philosophers recognize
both kama and worldly happiness and moksha. Both have been considered happiness
and of the two, moksha has been considered as the supreme purushartha. In the
Tamil-classics, with a view to bring out clearly the element of happiness common to both,
kama is referred as,
chitrinba or merely Inba and moksha as perinba.
Now the word moksha literally, means deliverance, that is deliverance of the soul from
bondage, bandha moksha. Our great philosophers argue that, so long as the soul is
imprisoned in the body, subject to the shackles, of the organism and enmeshed in sordid
matter, it will never be free from the taint of misery, pain and suffering of the three
kinds, adhi-bhautika, adhi-atmika and adhi-daivika, bodily, mental and God-made, the
tapatraya. Here the Hindu doctrine of karma and re- incarnation comes into full operation.
The soul's bondage in the body is the result of its past karma. The soul takes many bodies
and goes through the cycle of births and deaths to enjoy the fruits, good and bad, of
karma. |
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