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Jainism and Buddhism
sufferings. Dukkh Nirodha Marg.
All these four are life's realities. They are known as four Arya Satyas. Unless we fully comprehend these Arya Satyas there would no peace and happiness in human life.
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Some thinkers have ciritcized that this approach of Buddha is pessimistic and negative in character. This is not jusitified because like a good doctor he has diagnosed the ailment and has also proivded the remedy. Thus the first Arya Satya is a statement of fact, the awareness of which is essential for a purposeful living.
The second Arya Satya takes you to the practical aspect. It hits at the unintelligent tendency to attribute a meaning of punishment to these sufferings, because some persons believe that our sufferings are in the nature of punishment inflicted by God for our sins. Such a belief is countered as this Arya Satya asks us to explore the causes of our ailments which are in our own selves. Like Shri Mahavira even Buddha did not believe in the existence
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