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casting off this mortal body which is a real product of
karma.
There are two other schools which go by the names of their founders, Bhāskara and Yādavaprakāśa. Bhāskara says that Brahman is saguṇa; there are Jīvas and the world which are also real. By the limiting power of Brahman he becomes different and has forms like buddhi, senses, body, etc. Parts of Brahman having these limitations are called Jīvas. Although Brahman is indivisible like space, still just as space limited by a pot acquires the name of pot- space, so Brahman with the above limitations is separately termed a Jīva. Saṁsāra is the limitation caused by the upādhis or limiting adjuncts of Brahman. The upādhis are dispersed by true knowledge caused by incessant meditation on Brahman after attaining the knowledge of the unity of Brahman and Jīva by means of Vedic karma and jñāna together. Mokṣa is the union of Brahman and Jīva on the disappearance of the limitations.
Yādavaprakāśa says that Brahman transforms itself into the forms of cit, acit and Īśvara by real parināma. Cit is jīva; acit is body, senses, etc. Īśvara is the ordainer of every thing. Jīva does not know his unity with Brahman and this sense of difference is saṁsāra. The fetters of saṁsāra can be shaken off by performing good deeds and by God. True knowledge leads to union with Brahman and attainment of mukti. Even then there is unity as 41