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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
M.-They are not we, not ours.
G.-O Monks, in the same way, give up all what is not yours.
You will happily live for a long time.
Thus O Monks! This is my declared Dharma or Path.
A consideration of the above description of self analysis or self discrimination, will make it clear that only that pure soul which exists in Nirvana after destruction of all the non-soul objects is “I” or “my Soul.” A wise man should realize this. He should give up attachment with all the other thought-activities, objects, ideas, fleeting different kinds of consciousness, pleasure and pain and all the other beliefs or conjectures about the Soul.
The above statement clearly proves the existence of the pure soul, or of the Nirvâna or of the one who is in Liberation. The great Jain Saint Kunda Kundacharya has also described the way to Self-analysis in the following verses in his Samayasara :
अहमेदं एदमहं अहमेदस्सेव होमि मम एदं । अण्णं जं परदव्वं सचित्ताचित्तमिस्सं वा ॥ २५ ॥ आसि मम पुवमेदं अहमेदं चावि पुवकालनि । होहिदि पुणोवि मज्झं अहमेदं चावि होस्सामि ॥ २६ ॥ एयत्तु असंभूतं आदवियप्पं करेदि संमूढ़ो। भूदत्थं जाणंतो ण करेदि दु तं असंमूढो ॥ २७ ॥ Ahamedam edamaham aha-mêdassêva hômi
mama edam,
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