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ExisTENCE OF THE SOUL
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(5) Ratthapâla sutta P. 354.
The Monk Rastrapala controlled in self has obtained the best Brahmacharya in this very life after knowing and relizing himself.
This also shows realization of the soul. (6) Page. 358. Ratthapath sutta (M. N. 2. 4. 2).
King! That Lord who, is knower and perceiver, Arhat, and well-learned have preached 4 paths; knowing them, I have been homeless. They are (1) this world is destructible (2) this world is unsafe (3) this world is not mine, I have to go leaving all, (4) this world is a slave to craving.
Here also the soul is referred to.
I have thus shown such passages as prove the existence of the soul, selected by me from such Buddhistic literature as was available to me.
SOUL IN JAIN LITERATURE. Now I shall give some passages about the existence of pure soul from Jain literature.
It should be remembered that the Jain literature describes soul from two stand-points, the real and the practical. The real stand-point speaks of the true and the real nature of the soul as it is free from all Karmic bondage or anything else. The practical point of view shows all the impure and incomplete conditions of the soul, which are caused on account of Karmic bondage, or contact with body and other
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