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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
“Lust, hate and delusion, impure thoughts, causing the inflow (of karmas) are not found in a rightbeliever, therefore in the absence of these Inflowcausing thoughts, the material karmas, in existence with a soul, can never be the cause of bondage.”
The Jain Saint Kula-bhadra-âcharya say's in his “ Sârasamuchchaya” :--
* Jnan bhavanaya sikta nibhritenantarátmana, Apramattam gunam prapya, labhanté hitamâtmanah.
" Those who are engaged in meditation of true knowledge, come to know the inner self, and having got rid of carelessness acquire the goal of the soul.”'
Majjhima-nikâya, sattipatthana suttam (the tenth), describes four kinds of concentrated meditations as helpful to Nirvana, (1) meditation upon the transitory and impure nature of the body, (2) indifference to pleasure or pain, (3) meditation for getting rid of lust, hate and delusion, and for acquisition of non-attachment, (4) meditation on the different natures of things, such as, upon the nature of the causes of troubles and âsrava, upon the nature of the impurity caused by sensual enjoyment, and upon the nature of self absorption. In the last part of this Sutra, the following words show the result of such meditations.
* ज्ञान भावनया सिक्ता निभृतेनान्तरात्मनः । . अप्रमत्तं गुणं प्राप्य, लभन्ते हितमात्मनः ॥२१८॥
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