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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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continuous flux of momentary existences. The Reality is momentary in its nature. There is nothing permanent in this world. Permanence is only apparent and illusory; what is really existing is a continuous series of momentary existences. Buddha defined Reality as that which is momentary, yat satyam tat kşanikam. Whatever is real is only momentary. The essence of Reality is to be only momentary. There is nothing which abides or remains permanent for more than one moment. It neither arises out of any. thing nor does it pass into any thing. It comes out of nothing and passes into nothing. It is unrelated to other moments in any direct form. Th. Stcherbatsky describes the Buddhist Reality in the following manner ---"The elements of existence are momentary appearances, momentary flashings into the phenomenal world out of an unknown source. Just as they are disconnected so to say, in breadth, not being linked together by any pervading substance, just so are they disconnected in depth or in duration, since they last only one single moment (aut). They disappear as soon as they appear, in order to be followed the next moment by another momentary existence. Thus a moment becomes a synonym of an element (dharma), two moments are two different elements. An element becomes something like a point in time-space.. Consequently, the elements do not change, but disappear,.. the world becomes a cinema. Disappearance is the very essence of existence; what does not disappear does not exist.”! Thus every
1 Stcherbatsky Th.: The Central Conception of Buddhism, pp. 37–38,
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