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EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL
P. 189. Dialogue between the nun Khema (wife of Srenika) and King Pasenadi :
She says, (6 Reverend one, the ocean is deep, immeasurable, unfathomable, even so, king, that body by which one might define Tathagata is relinquished, cut off at the root, unrooted like a palm tree, brought to nought, not to rise in future. Freed from designation of body a Tathâgata is deep, immeasurable, and unfathomable like ocean."
This passage also proves that the pure soul in Nirvana is out of mind and speech and is only realizable.
Sacred Books of the East Vol. XLIX. Mahayana Text.
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Prajna paramita.
P. 148. "When the envelopment of consciousness has been annihilated, then he becomes free from all fear, beyond the reach of change, enjoying final Nirvana. All the Buddhas of the past, present and future, after approaching Prajna Paramita, have awoke to the highest knowledge."
P. 149. "O wisdom, gone, gone, gone, to the other shore, landed at the other shore."
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This also shows that discrimination between soul and non-soul is prajna. This leads to purity of soul in Nirvana. It also proves the existence of the soul.
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Sacred Books of the Buddhists Vol. III by T. W. Rhys Davids L.L.D.
Dialogue of the Buddha-Pali D. N. P. II. (1910).
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