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the world; for them the apparent and illu. sory existence of a material world has, if at all any, only one real substance, the Karman. Quite unlike the Jains, they maintain that there is nothing like eternal atman ; soul to them is only individual consciousness. The objects we perceive have no reality. As Barth puts it "Our individuality is only a form, an empty appearance. Everything is only a flux of aggregates which are interminably uniting and disunitiog, an immense flood of which we do not seek to know the beginning and from which we can escape only by Nirvana." According to this view the only thing that continues to exist after an individual's death is his karman, “The influence of its karman alone, of its acts, survives it, and through the formation of a new group of Skandhas is immediately effected, a new individual rises into existence......and in some degree continues the first."
Now we will look into the four great truths which Buddhism taught. The first Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
