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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
labhatitampi dukkham (7) pancha upadana khandha dukkham; Katamam dukkha-samudayo :-ya iyam taṇha ponârbhavika nandiraga 'sahagata, tatra tatrabhi nandini; seyyathidam :-(1) Kâma tanha (2) bhava tanhà (3) vibhava tanhâ.
Katamo dukkha nirodha :-Yo tassa eva tanha ya asêså virága nirôdhô chago, pati-nissango mukti, anâlayô, ; katama' dukkha-nirodha-gâmini patipadaatthangiko maggo."
“(A right believer) knows the pain, the cause of the pain, the prevention of the pain, and the way to prevent the pain. What are the pains ?. The pains are (1) birth (2) old-age (3) disease (4) death (5) sorrow, weeping, misery, sadness of mind, confusion (6) not to get the desired object (7) the five root-spheres of body', feeling, sensation, mentation, and consciousness.
The causes of the pain are desire to take re-birth, desire to have pleasure and welcoming the pleasures, just as . (1) desire for sense-enjoyments (2) desire to have re-birth (3) desire to have riches or to be destroyed. The prevention of pain is to have total nonattachment with that desire, to check it, to give it up, to throw it off, to be liberated from it, not to be absorbed in it. The means for the prevention of pain is to follow the eight-fold path of liberation." - Note. In the Hindi Buddha Charya Page 124 Maha satipatthana sutta Dig. N. 2. 22 the description of the five spheres is given thus :-To have organs of touch,
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