शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

100 SIVAGNANA BOTHAM.
NOTES.
———◇———
In the last Sutra, it was enjoined that the soul should contem-
plate on Sri Panchatchara for the purpose of effecting its purifi-
cation. The present chapter treats of the Palan or ends to be
achieved by the Sadanas mentioned in the foregoing chapter.
The end, it is agreed on all sides, is what is called Moksha or
Mukti or "Veedu" in Tamil. The word literally means freed or
freedom and it therefore imports two things. When the soul
attains Mukti it is freed from ignorance or Pasam (Pasa and
Pasu Gnanam) and attains Pathi Gnanam. The very act which
separates the soul from Pasam (Jagat) unites it to the Pathi
(Brahm) as was before illustrated by the case of the man reach-
ing the ground by the breaking of the rope of the swing. Of
these two results of Mukti, this Sutra treats of Pasatchaya or
the mode by which the soul is freed of Pasu. This is achieved
by the soul becoming one with God and by considering all its
actions as those of the Lord. Becoming one with God means
attaining Adwaitha relation, and to remove all doubts about what
this Adwaitha relation is, the Sutra points out that the soul
should become one with God in Mukti as God was one with the
soul in its bantha condition. This relalionship is further ex-
plained in the next Sutra in explaining the attainment of Pathi
Gnanam. Some of the Purvapaksha theories relating to the
condition of the soul in Mukti are as follows :—
Freedom or unity is reached,

1. when the Akas of the pot unites with the enter Akas
   by the breaking of the pot ;