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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until they are born again fianlly as perfected Buddhas (samyak sambuddha) and have led to salvation of all living beings, men or gods, or demons or animals. For, all beings are embryos of Tathāgata (Tathāgata garbha), and carry within themselves from the very beginning the germ of Buddhahood, that only needs a purification from contingent (āgantuka) blemishes, “like gold which lies buried in grime."."
The Mahāyānists were the men who struggled to transform their weak and feeble imperfect personalities into the highest Bodhisattva who is the perfectly enlightened soul on the earth. The Mahāyāna ideal of life is one of self-elevation and the elevation of all. Thus, in the very centre of Mahāyāna stands the ideal of the Bodhisattva, the enlightened human being who has become divine, who only declines the immediate entrance into Nirvāna because he feels that he has not yet completed his seli-imposed task to present to all living beings the Good Law. Far more sublime than the Arhat, he stands on the level of a Tathāgata; for "out of the Rulers of the wise (munīndra ) arise the S'ravakas and the Pratyeka buddhas, but out of the Bodhisattva the perfected Buddha himself is born.?
To the Hinayānist creed belong two sub-schools known as the Vaibhāsika and the Sautrāntika schools
1 Schayer Stanislar : The Mahāyāna Doctrines of Salvation, pp. $4, 35.
2 Ibid. p. 35.
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