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Quoted in Conze : Buddhist Texts Through the Ages, London, 1954 pp. 220-239. The Hindu tāntric works teach the same. The Kudra yāmala enjoins the use of five makāras (wine, women, flesh, fish and cereals) in sädhonā for becoming a perfect yogin. (Kane; ibid p. 1034). The Kulārnava tantra states that "siddhi ("perfection ) results from those very substances by which men incur sin." (Kane : ibid p. 1064). Kaularahasya maintains that mukti is secured by drinking wine, eating flesh and indulging in sex (maithuna) (Kane ibid p. 1087). As A. L. Basham in 'Doctrines of Jainism' Sources of Indian Tradition ed. Theodore de Bary, New York 1958 p. 53 observes that "The Jaina scriptures contain nothing comparable for instance to the Metta sutta of the Buddhists and the intense sympathy and compassion of the Bodhisattva of Mahāyāna Buddhism is quite foreign to the ideals of Jainism ..."
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