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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
The Jain Saint Kunda Kunda Acharya says in Panchâstikaya the same thing.
मणुसत्तणेण णठ्ठो देही देवो हवेदि इदरो वा ।
उभयत्त जीव भावो ण णस्सदि ण जायदे अण्णो ॥ १७ ॥ Manusatthanena nattho dehi devo havedi idaro vâ, Ubhayatta jiva bhâvo na passadi na jâyade anno
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"This being is destroyed with reference to human condition, and is born a celestial or another, but in both the existences, the soul-substance is the same, it is neither destroyed nor newly born."
Thus from the point of change of condition they are different; but from the point of the real being, the yare the same.
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SAINTS CALMLY ENDURE SUFFERINGS.
As the Jain Saints are required to endure twentytwo sufferings calmly, so the Buddhist literature also speaks on the point for the Buddhist monks.
"The Doctrine of the Buddha" by George Grimm.
Page 325. This is a monk who bears cold and heat, hunger and thirst, wind and rain, mosquitoes, wasps, vexing crawling beings, malicious and spiteful words, painful feelings of the body striking him, violent cutting, piercing, disagreeable, tedious, life endangering, he patiently endures. He is entirely free from greed, hate and delusion, dis-joined from mis-conduct, sacrifice and gifts, service and greetings, he deserves as the holiest state in the world.
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