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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
addha gamissâmi na mettha kankhâ, evapadhâréhi avitachittani.
Vissuddha Maggha-Path of purity of Buddha Ghosh, translated by P. Maun Tui, Parts, I and II.
Page 57. Virtue is abstention, Volition, restraint, non-transgression in regard to all things. Such kind of virtue conduces to absence of mental remorse, to gladness, rapture, tranquillity, joy', practice, culture, developement, adornment, requisites of concentration, fulness, fulfilment, certain disgust, dispassion, cessation, quiet, higher knowledge, perfect knowledge, Nibbâna.
Page 248. Nibbâna with its intrinsic nature of eternity, deathlessness, refuge, shelter and so on is well proclaimed.
Page 338. Nibbâna is ageless (and) permanent.
The life of the Buddha by Edward J., Thomas M.A., D. Litt, (1927)..
Page 197. Nirvana—The state to which the monk has now attained is the other shore, the immortal (i.e., permanent) fixed state. The word Nirvana blowing out, extinction, is not peculiarly Buddhistic. For the Buddhist, it is, as is clear, the extinction of craving
in From lust and from desire detached, The Monk with insight here and now Has gone to the immortal peace, The unchangeable Nirvana state.
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