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( 282 ) newer and newer Brahmāryan society needed newer methods to consolidate her triumphs in social sphere and ultimately discovered the powerful adjunct of the Brāhmaṇical religion for the integration of its mixed society. Brāhmaṇism is the religion of Tribalism in Triumph.
The third principle world religion, the Buddhism, arose in Bhārata Circa 600 B.C. Buddhism accepts the indepen
dence of the individual soul, its transmigBuddhism
ration to different births and rebirths and its final liberation. Buddhism substantially differs from Jainism and Brāhmaṇism in its conception of Soul. Buddhism Soul is an ever-changing phenomenon. The Buddhist Moksa is neither the personal perfection of Jainism or merger in Brāhmaṇic Brahma but it is extinction (Sūnya). It is for this reason that Buddhism is considered to be nearer the materialistic doctrine of communism. It is the quality of matter that ever changes. Change is partial extinction.
The complete change is complete extinction. If complete extinction is the result of complete change ; the end is materialistic. The end is always similar to the means, hence the framework of Buddhism is materialistic. That was the Brāhmaṇical influence of the Gana way on the original Bhāratiya spiritual culture. Both Sramaņic religions, the Jainism and the Buddhism, were influenced by the Gaņa Way ; Jainism a bit lesser than Buddhism. That resulted in the Buddhist, as well as Jainistic, institutions of Samgha. Buddha accepts Non-Violence, Truth, Non-Stealing, complete abstinence and non-possessiveness as the basic foundations of his religion. The basis is spiritual, the framework is materialistic and the end also similar.
• The cause of the rise of Buddhism is the same. The original Bhāratīya society began disintegrating due to the
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