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Lord Buddha's Sadhana (Meditation Practice) (Buddha's Teachings, Compared with the Vedic
Dharma and Santmat)
It has been two thousand five hundred years since the passing (paranirvana) of Buddha. According to the Indian sources, the Bhagavad-Gita predates Buddha by at least 2500 years. It is interesting to find similarities between the teachings from these
two sources. Therefore, it would not be out of context to cite
references which convey the similarities.
A good example is found in the Gita (Chapter 6: 5-6):
Let a man lift himself by himself; let him not degrade himself; for self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is the enemy of the self. For he who has conquered his self by the self, his self is a friend, but for him who has not possessed his higher self, his very self will act like an enemy.
This can be compared with a similar teaching in the Dhammapad's Attavaggo where the Buddha states: “The self is the lord of the self.”
The Chittavaggo of the Dhammapada (verses 10-11) also states:
Whatever an enemy may do to an enemy, whatever a hater may do to a hater, a wrongly directed mind will do even greater harm. Neither mother nor father nor
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