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WHY JAINISM ANI) BUDDHISM ARE THE SAME? 293
Relatives, sons and bodies etc. are like lightning. Know all the worldly phenomena to be transitory."
THE UNIVERSE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING AND END. , The Jains and Buddhists both agree that this universe is without beginning and end and that no personal God is its creator. Vide“ The Doctrine of the Buddha" by Grimm. Page 90. “Without beginning or end, ye monks, is this round of re-birth (sansara). There cannot be discerned a first beginning of beings, who, sunk in ignorance and bound by thirst ceaselessly transmigrating again and again run to a new birth. Five, in number, Sariputra, are the fates that may befall after death : namely, the passage into hellworld, the animal kingdom, the realm of Preta, the world of men and the abodes of Gods."
Page 94. "Among these five fates ultimately only the last one, the abode in heaven-world, could be desirable. But according to the Buddha, this one is just as much subject to the great law of transmigration, as the abode in the four other ones."
Page 96. “Running down from birth to death, from death to birth, you have shed on this long way truly more tears than water is contained within the four great oceans."
Page 106. How can human insight bear the thought of a god who ought to be the sum of infinite
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