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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Bandithian
an individual. The Buddhists therefore believe that Nirvāņa or liberation can be attained by completely destroying the accumulated saṁskāras and by arresting forever the process of the formation and accumulation of the samskāras by enlightenment and Yogic practices. The origin of the sarskāras is, according to the Buddhists, Ignorance or Avidyā. All acts that leave their traces and impressions behind them in the form of samskāras arise out of ignorance. If an individual became free from ignorance he would not act or his acts would not produce sarskāras which would not seek consciousness for their reali.. zation, and hence, there would remain no necessity of Name and Form, which in their turn would not produce the six organs or sadāyatanas which would not have any contact with the external things, and thus desires or cravings would not be produced; with the disappearance of desires, attachment to things would vanish, and hence, there will be no birth and its accompanying sorrows and pains also would disappear for ever. Thus, the ignorance ar false-knowledge or the illusion seem to be the first cause or the starting point of the series of the twelve nidānas. The Buddhists advocated the complete cessation of desires and annihilation of ignorance from their actual experience, and stated with certainty that it would lead to cessation of consciousness and life, which is equivalent of extinction or Nirvāṇa.
Buddhism does 'not admit any persisting entity known as the 'Self', which it reduces to a
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