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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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Buddhism
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vidual entity sustained by an immortal ego-substratum.”l.. This combination of the constituent elements, Buddhism declares, is achieved by them. selves after their Karma. Thus all unifications, syntheses and organisations take place because of the potency of Kamma. The Kamma arranges the sequences of momentary existences in unbroken continuities. By Karma, called in Pāli Kamma, all five are held together — that is to say, constitute life -- so long as Karma is in force. They fall apart as soon as Kamma is exhausted.2 Dahlke makes the role of Kamma clearer in the following passage - “The will to live, the lust for living, is the force which keeps going the endless play of action and reaction, the arising of one life out of another. "There is Kamma', simply means that with this life is already given the next and the next again, and so on through the endless series of existences. "Life" is synonymous with the beginninglessness, and endlessness of life, and Kamma is merely the concise formula for the fact that this unfathomable endlessness, this play of life, is in progress.”3 Thus, the work of coordination of different physical and biological factors is done by the Kamma energy. The unification of the various states of consciousness also is effected by the Kamma energy, and hence, the existence of the Self becomes unnecessary and uncalled for. According to Buddhism there is no such inherent
1 Suzuki D. T. : Outlines of Mah yāna Buddhism, pp.149–150. 2 Dahlke Paul : Buddhist Essays, p. 25. 3 Ibid, pp. 25-26.
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