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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sense-affections, compound feelings and compound concepts), (v) rūpa (four elements, the body, the senses), sense data, etc. Thus a broad division of these aggregates is made between the nama and the rupa. The word rūpa stands for matter and material qualities, the senses and the sense-data. All corporeality is represented by the word rupa and all mental characteristics are represented by the word nāma. The world is a play of these two categories nama and rupa. When all these five Khandhas operate in a combined form, the various mental states arise. The states of consciousness do not arise separately from any of them. When all are present and they operate in a definite way the states of consciousness are generated. Thus when all these Khand has form a compound there emerges the self of an individual.
The Self cannot emerge in the absence of any of the five aggregates of Khandhas. The Khandhas are absolutely necessary for the emergence of the Self. The Self thus appears to be an epiphenomenon of the body. Suzuki describes it as- -"The existence of an ego-soul cannot be conceived apart from sensation, perception, imagination, intelligence, volition, etc. and therefore, it is absurd to think that there is an independent individual soul-agent which makes our consciousness its workshop..... When the five Skandhas are combined according to the previous Karma and present a temporal existence in the form of a sentient being, vulgar minds imagine that they
For Private And Personal
1 Samyutta Nikaya III, 86 etc.
2 Suzuki D. T.: Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism, p. 147.