Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c13: Chapter VIII: Heaven
Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā in its Sources c13
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Chapter VIII: Heaven
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The name ‘Heaven’ is applied to that happy state which is entirely free from all touch of pain, and which, as such, is desired by all men. (*Prakaraṇapañchikā*, pp. 102-103.) This is a paraphrase of the well-known definition provided in the *Viṣṇu-Purāṇa*—
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यन्न दुःखेन सिम्भन्नं न च ग्रस्तमनन्तरम् ।
अभिलाषोपनीतं च तत् पदं स्वःपदास्पदम् ॥
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*Sukha*, Happiness, Pleasure, is not mere *absence of pain*. In the *absence of pain* what we feel is only that *there is no pain*; the feeling being purely negative; so that what we are conscious of in the Soul by itself is as *without pain*, not as with some positive quality. On the other hand, when we feel *happy* or *pleased*, we are conscious of something *positive*,—a positive quality, as belonging to the Soul; or more exactly, the Soul as endowed with a positive quality.--(*Prakaraṇapañchikā*, p. 149.)
Linked texts (2)
- Prakaraṇapañcikā — Śālikanātha Miśra, Sanskrit
- Viṣṇupurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit