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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
"After having brought under control all the senses, and after a steady internal insight, whatever is then realized is the true nature of the pure soul."
This worldly being grasps different objects through the five senses and the mind, and is plunged in delusion, lust and hate and is therefore always away from its own Self. If he restrains himself from attending to these six organs, then what is realizable within, is nothing but the pure soul or the nirvana. Take the case of a man living in a house with six windows. He always looks outside through one or more of those windows, but never looks within. If he would divert his attention away from the windows, and look inside he would see all that is within. In the same way when one becomes non-attached to the six organs and attends within, he finds his own Nirvâna or the pure soul within himself. In the Buddhistic Literature, such indirect description is made with the purpose of diverting attention from the Non-self to the Self. There, one is asked to relinquish all the causes of âsavâs, i.e. impure thought activities, to get rid of delusion, lust and hate, to follow full chastity, to practise perfect concentration, to have perfect equanimity, to be totally non-attached, and to have perfect meditation. He is asked to have no attachment to transitory conditions which rise and fall. To be non-attached to all the flittering objects, is to be absorbed in one's own. Self.
I shall show by quotations from Buddhist Literature,
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