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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Buddhism
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They were the men of strict discipline and renunciation. They were misters of themselves. They exercised severe control over their pissions and senses. They possessed miraculous powers of governing their sensuous niture. They had the utmost moral fervour and lived a life of complete renunciation and tranquillity,
The causal chain of twelve nidānas of the Buddhists contains profound truth in it. A psychological analysis of human experiences holds testimony to the Buddhist causal chain. If we start in the reverse direction and try to reach ignorance gradually from Duhkha, it will be clear that the Buddhists were not mistaken and unjustified in tracing the series of Proximate causes of each of the members of the series. The last product of the series is duḥkha or pain which is caused by Birth. The birth means a bodily and mental life on the earth. It is a fact of everybody's experience that the bodily survival is not a very easy and comfortable thing. The functioning of the body is dependent upon numerous external things and environmental factors. A body functions in a normally sound way, if it derives all the necessary nourishment from nature and society, and when the environmental conditions also are favour. able. When an organism is ill-adjusted to the environment it has to meet with abnormal physical disabilities, invalidity, diseases and all kinds of sufferings and pains. Man's satisfaction, pleasure and mental stability depend upon other men's reactions to him. His mind is frequently disturbed and tortured
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| 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 |