tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Buddhism
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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possesses its own peculiarity and because of it, it acquires its own individuality. C. H. S. Ward describes it in the following words-" Although, Buddhists deny the existence of a person or an individual, as an ultimate Reality, they acknowledge that there are individual streams of existence which are distinct from all other such streams. The individual stream is made up of all the mental and physical elements of the individual mind and body, together with such external objects as enter into the consciousness at any given moment. But this stream is never the same for two consecutive moments; it is like the Kaleidoscope.. ." Thus every orderly series is supposed to possess its own individuality. The noteworthy thing is that Buddhism does not accept the doctrine of causation at all. It does not believe that one moment creates the other as its effect. Stcherbatsky says'A cause for the Buddhists is not a real cause, but a preceding moment which likewise arose out of nothing in order to disappear into nothing. Consequently the elements do not change but disappear.' Ward thus makes it clear, that the Buddhists theory of becoming "is not really a theory of cause and effect. The elements of being are all independent entities existing of and by themselves and not in dependence, one upon another."
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For Private And Personal
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The Self as such does not exist by itself. The emergence and appearance of the Self depends upon
1 Ward C. H. S.: Buddhism, Vol. I (Hinayana), p. 80. 2 Stcherbatsky Th. The Central Conception of Buddhism,
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Ward C. H. S.: Buddhism, Vol. I (Hinayana), p. 82,