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Jainism and Buddhism
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The fourth Arya Satya shows the way to covercome the sffuerings. This way is eight fold, namely 1. Ruight view, which in Jain parlance is called "Samyag Darhshan" 2. Right resolve, which is known by Jain as "Samyag" Jnana knowledge. 3. Right Speech 4. Right action, 5. Right livehood, 6. Right effort. All these from 3 to 6 are covered by the Jain concept of "Samyag Charitra". These six would develop. 7. Ruigh mindedness and last. 8. Right state of trance - Samadhi. All these eight steps are called "Ashtang Marg."
Buddhism belives in existence and power of soul and also in the theory of Karma. But its approach is differerent from that of Jains who believe that the soul (Jiva) being the driving force of all actions is bound by the consequences of such actions and since it never dies it takes rebirth along with these consequences. Buddhism however believes that like everything else, even soul is transitory and dies along with the death of the body. It may be noted that Buddhism does believe in recarnation i.e. rebirth but says that the soul in the
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