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one of them. O Brahmana, thus seeing the wealth of self-discrimination within myself I walk fearless in the forest."
Here Prajna means the realization that I am other than non-self, senses, and all that which is destructible and painful. “Seeing the wealth of self-discrimination within myself' clearly shows that one is seeing his own nature as it is in his own pure soul. Had there been no existence of the soul or had there been no soul in Nirvana, then the above statement would have had no meaning at all. Prajna is called that intellect which discriminates self from non-self. The Great Jain Saint says in Samayasara :
पण्णाए घितव्वो जो चेदा सो अहं तु णिच्छयदो। अवसेसा जे भावा ते मज्झपरित्त णादव्वा ॥ ३२५ ॥ Pannaye ghita vvô jô chedâ so aham ta nichchhayado avasêsâ je bhâvâ te majjha paritta nâdavvâ, 325.
“That which should be grasped by self-discrimination is 'I' from the real point of view; all the other conditions should be known as other than I'."
Some Sayings of the Buddha by F. L. Woodward, M.A., 1925. Some quotations from the above book which show the existence of the soul are given below:
Page 188.--Impermanent, alas ! are all compounded things. Their nature is to rise and fall. When they have risen they cease. The bringing of them to an end is bliss. (D. N. II 198).
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