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
Buddhaism
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clear by stating" "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 lile, is in progress."! It is negatively stated by Dahlke that there is no 'soul' that transmigrates from one birth to another birth with its stock of Karma accumulated in one's previous birth. He writes - "No 'soul' unites one existence to another; no consciousness passes from one to the other; for consciousness is individual, arising fresh with each Bhava, with each Bhava again passing away."2 In the absence of the persistent self Buddhism cannot consistently hold the doctrine of transmigration of the self. It tried to explain one's experiences with the idea of a round of rebirths. C. H. S. Ward says "It follows that the Buddha, denying the existence of the soul, has no doctrine of the transmigration of the soul, as, such as that which is held by Hindus. Buddhists however, substitute for transmigration the doctrine of 'a round of births. '3
But Buddha made a provision of the Kamma to operate as a substitute of the Self. Kamina thus forms the link between two lives. Karma, the pote ncy to determine the form and mode of the life to
1 Dahlke Paul : Buddhist Essays. p. 26. 2 Ibid. p. 26. 3 Ward C. H. S. : Buddhism. Vol. I, p. 82.
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