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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
The Jain Saint Sri Yogindra Acharya says in Yogasara :
अप्पा अप्पउ जउ मुणहि तउ णिबाणु लहेहि । पर अप्पा जउ मुणिहि तुहं तहु संसार भमेहि ॥९२।। Appâ appau Jau munahi tau nivvanu lahehi, Para appâ jau munihi tuhum tahu sansara
bhamehi 12. “ If you will realize yourself, then you will have Nirvana, but if you consider yourself as something else, you will roam about in the world.".
Sacred Books of the East, Vol X, 1881 by F. Max Muller.
Dhammapada, Chap. XII, Self.
S. 160. “Self is the lord of Self, who else could be the Lord ? With self well-subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find.”
S. 165. “By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers ; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another."
Here also the soul is referred to. It becomes pure on the removal of all the impurities of the five skandhas. The soul is itself responsible.
The same idea has been expressed by the Jain Saint Pujyapâda Swami in his Samadhi Sataka :
नयत्यात्मानमात्मैव जन्मनिर्वाणमेव च ।
गुरु रात्मात्मनस्तस्मान्ना न्योऽस्ति परमार्थतः ॥ ७५॥ Nayatyâtmânàmâtmaiva janma nirvâna meva cha, Guru râtmâtmanastasmân nânyosti paramârthatah 75.
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