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
1934
He says "Individual existences then as such lose their significance and become sublimated and ennobled in the oneness of Dharmakāya. Egoistic prejudices are forever vanquished, and the aim of our lives is no more the gratification of selfish cravings, but the glorification of Dharma as it works its own way through the multitudinousness of things. The Self does not stand any more in a state of isolation (which is an illusion), it is absorbed in the universal body of Dharma, it recognises itself in other selves, animate as well as inanimate, and all things are in Nirvāņa. When we reach this state of ideal enlightenment we are said to have realised the Buddhist life." 1 What is thus lost in Nirvāña, according to Mahāyānism, is the narrow egohood. Suzuki definitely asserts that Nirvāṇa of Mahāyānism is a positive entity; but Dahlke speaks with a great precaution. He says"In Buddhist thought, however, Being in nowise passes into Non-Being. It is the becoming only that ceases. The end here is not Non-being, but Nevermore becoming."? But Dahlke again suggests indirectly that the ultimate state may not be one of negation. He further says-" It is to be noted that nothing is destroyed at death; nothing is overthrown but the appearance, the illusion of this Bhāva. "3 Very cleverly Dahlke escapes this controversy about the nature of Nirvana and inclines to the negative side. He says—“Whether Not-becoming' resembles
1 Suzuki D.T.: Outlines of Mdhayana Buddhism, p. 180. 9 Dahlke Paul : Buddhist Essays, p. 205. 3 Ibid. p. 26.
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