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Eastword, the Jainas clung to India and triumphed so far that he holds his own in the very centers of Brahmanism.
It would be curious to inquire how in the popular mind Buddhism and Jainism came to be mixed up. Both in religion and in metaphysics they are widely asunder from each other. A far greater prominence is given to asceticism by Jainism than in Bud. dhism. It is true that both have “ Nirvana" for their object but the Nirvana of the one is by no means the Nirvana of the other. The Jain's Nirvana differs greatly from that of the Buddhist's in its conception of the means of attaining perfect beatitude. The difference between the two systems spans all the interval between Animism and Pan. theism. Nevertheless there are resemblences which may well mislead the incautious ob. server. Both believed in reincarnation and births carrying the man who has begun his religious probation to Nirvana, for both systeins the chief founder was the last link
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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