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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Mokṣa
Every good we do is absorbed in the universal stock of merits which is no more, no less than the Dharmakaya. Every existence, great or insignificant is a reflection of the glory of the Dharmakaya and as such worthy of its all-embracing love." The Dharmakaya is full of profound love for all beings. Every one of us partakes something of it in ourself, and every one is destined to attain Buddhahood when our individual human intelligence (Bodhi), is perfectly identified and absorbed in that of the Dharmakaya and when our earthly life becomes a realisation of the superior of the Dharmakaya. It does punish our wrong deeds and does not allow the Karma to be exhausted unless its fruits are borne; but even then through all these odds it ever directs our lives towards the actualisation of its will and at the same time it ever stretches its hands to receive all in its embrace. The Dharmakaya thus being immanent in everything pushes every thing towards itself from within and drags to itself all the beings serving externally as the norm or ideal.
The Mahayana Buddhism also depicts Nirvana as the end of all life and existence; but the idea of Nirvana undergoes a complete change in the hands of the Mahāyānists. Their Nirvana becomes a positive entity and state of perfect enlightenment and illumination rather than one of darkness and extinction. "Nirvāņa", writes Suzuki, "according to the Buddhists, does not signify annihilation of consciousness nor a temporal or permanent suppression of mentation
1 Suzuki D. T.: Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism, p. 233.
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