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
support from the Suttas. It is said in the Pingiyamānava pukkhi 'seeing others afflicted by the body,
- O Pingiya, so said Bhagavat, -'(seeing) heedless people suffer in their bodies, - therefore, O Pingiya, shalt thou be heedful, and leave the body behind, that thou mayest never come to exist again'." - "..therefore thou, Pingiýa, shalt be heedful, and leave desire behind, that thou mayest never come to exist again'. It is similarly stated in the Upasivamāneva pükkhã 2 'As a flame blown about by the violence of the wind, -0 Upasīva, so said Bhagavat, -'goes out, cannot be reckoned (as existing), even so a Muni, delivered from name and body, disappears, and cannot be reckoned (as existing).” It further continues "8-'For him who has disappeared there is no form, o Upasīva' so said Bhagavat, - that by which they say he is, exists for him no longer, when all things (dhamma) have been cut off, all (kinds of) dispute are also cut off'.'? Existence, according to the Suttas, is in no way desirable. They do not seek some kind of existence or continuation of existence even in the Dharmakāya as do the Mahāyānists. It is clearly stated in the Magandiya sutta --(The inward peace is explained) -"5.-Not by (any philosophical) opinion, not by tradition, not by knowledge',- Magandiya, so said Bhagavat,
-'not by virtue and (holy) works can any one say that purity exists, nor by absence of (philosphical)
1 Faustall V. (Tr.): Sutta Nipāta (Sacred Books of the East Series ), p. 198.-1073.
9 Ibid. p. 199–1075.
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