| Even though on
account of his realisation of jnana, a man may have his agami and sanchita karmas entirely
destroyed, still those karmas which have begun to fructify in the present life, will not
be destroyed and will continue to produce their effects until the present life lasts.
The example is given of the arrow which has been shot already and which will surely
stop only by striking at the target. Hence it is held that in the jeevan-mukti-state, a
man will continue to live and reap the consequences of his past karma, until at death he
attains the state of mukti. Some of the
non-Vedantic schools of Indian though like the Sankhya and even the dissident Buddhist
school accept jeevan- mukti, The possibility of attaining jeevan- mukti here is shown by
the lives of great saints, even in recent years, like Sadasiva Brahmendra, Trilingasvami
of Benares, Seshadriswami of Tiruvanna- malai, Mounaswami of Kumbakonam and others.
The other school of Vedanta thinkers holds that it is not possible for man to attain mukti
during his present life
on earth and that mukti can accrue to him only after death. There is another difference
also among the various, schools of thought. The Nyaya and the Samkhya schools are of the
view that mukti is not of the nature of happiness or bliss, but is only negative, namely,
freedom, from pain and suffering. |
