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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
Tasmadih bhikkha ve yam na timmhakam tam pajahath tam Vo pahinam digharattain hitaya sukhaya Chavissati ; Kincha bhikkhave na tumhâ kam: rûpam bhikkhave na tumhakam vedaná...na tumhakam...sanjna ...na tumhakam... Vijnanam...no tumhakam...tam Kim mannátha bhikkhave :-Yam imasmin Jetavane tinakattha sâkhâ palasam tam jano hareyyam Va da heyya va yathapachchayam Kareyya; apime tumhakam"evam assa :-ambejano harati ; va dahatti rayathapachchayam va Karatiti : noh etem bhante tam Kissa hetu -ha hi no tumhakam tam pajahath :-Sukha ya bhavíssati. Evam stakkhato bhikkhave ma ye dhamno.
Gotam-"O Monks, which do you maintain, whether the body is indestructible or destructible ?
Monks--O Lord, it is destructible.
G. Is that which is destructible, painful or pleasing?...
M.-0 Lord, it is painful. .
G.--Should we say of that which is destructible, painful, changeable, that it is mine, or that my soul is this?
M.-0 Lord, not.
G.-Is feeling indestructible or destructible ? Is perception indestructible or destructible ? Are mental activities indestructible or destructible ? Is impure) consciousness indestructible or destructible ?
M.-O Lord, destructible.
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