Adhikarana VIII — The Mukta enjoys objects

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Adhikarana VIII — The Mukta enjoys objects

and is not quiescent

In the preceding Sutras have been described the attributes which the Mukta possesses, in order to enjoy heavenly blessings, and his getting a divine body through which he enjoys them. That there are enjoyments to be experienced in Mukti, we find established by texts like the following of the Taittiriya Upanishad (II., 1. 1.):

He enjoys all objects of desire along with Brahman.

Now the author mentions that this enjoyment may be problematic and hence arises the following doubt.

Doubt: Is it possible that a Mukta may have enjoyments or is it not possible?

Purvapaksha: The Purvapakshin maintains, that since the Mukta is devoid of body and sense-organs, it is not possible for him to enjoy any object. If it be said that being a Yogin, he has the creative power of making a body for himself in order to enjoy objects, to this we reply, that being full of divine ecstasy and bliss, he will have no hankering for sensations, and will not create a body to enjoy external objects. The Mukta, therefore, does not enjoy objects of desire.

Siddhanta: This view is set aside in the next Sutra.

SUTRA IV. 4. 13.

तन्वभावे सन्ध्यवदुपपत्तेः॥४.४.१३॥

tanvabhāve sandhyavadupapatteḥ ..4.4.13..

.. Tanu, of the body, … Abhave, in the absence, … Sandhyavad, just as in a dream, Sandhya means dream. … Upapatteh, it being possible.

13. Even in the absence of a body, the Mukta enjoys objects as in the state of dream; because of the reasonableness of such enjoyments. — 550.

COMMENTARY

The enjoyment is not impossible, even in the absence of a (self-created) body. As in the condition of dream (where the objects of enjoyment and the subtle bodies through which those objects are enjoyed are created by the Lord Himself), so in the state of Mukti; (though the Mukta may not desire any such enjoyment, the Lord out of His fullness bestows such enjoyments on him). Therefore, as in a dream, where there is no body, but still enjoyment, so in the state of Mukti, there is enjoyment even without the body.

Of course, when the Mukta creates a body, then his enjoyment is more full and intense, as is mentioned in the next Sutra.

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