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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
“What I perceive originating and perishing, that cannot be my I, my Ego. On one side stands I; on the other, the whole gigantic cosmos, the duration, origination, dissolution of which I recognize in and through my personality.”
P. 138. “This thought, wisely considered, also must make it clear that I am something standing behind life, behind the five groups, something only adhering, only clinging to life and to the five groups constituting personality, as to something alien which I think desirable.”
P. 139. "The soul is an immaterial and therefore spiritual, therefore simple, therefore imperishable, substance. Notions are therefore nothing originally real, but an artificial product of reason distilled from the world given in perception."
Jain literature also says that the pure and true nature of the soul appears in its reality in the Nirvana condition. The Jain Saint Amritachandra says in Samayasarą Kalasa :
आत्मस्वभावं परभावभिन्नमापूर्ण माधन्त विमुक्तमेकं । विलीन संकल्पविकल्पजालं प्रकाशयन शुद्द नयोऽभ्युदेति॥ Ātma swabhâvam parabhava bhinnamâpūrņa mâ
dyanta vimukta mekam Vilîna sankalpa vikalpa jálam prakâsayan suddha
nayo bhhyudeti.- 10/1. अनाधनंतमचलं स्वसंवेद्यमिदं स्फुटम् । ...... जीवः खयंतु चैतन्यमुचै श्वचक चकायते ॥
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