tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Ātman and Moksa
world as the new being.... Thus we see, according to Buddhism, there is nothing that passes from one life to another for there is nothing to pass. The cessation of the Khandhas (Groups) in one life gives birth to some other Khandhas in another."'Sīlācāra Bhikkhu also does not admit the endurance of any other thing than the Karma – energy -- the potency that moulds and casts the future life of the individual. The Kamma-energy is more or less; but it manifests itself through varying media known as the upādhis and the peculiarities of the upadhis, or the adjuncts make the individual peculiar and unique. The Kamma operates simply as the force behind. Monier -Williams further says "In its subtle and irresistible operation it may be compared to stored-up chemical or electric energy. It is a force which continually creates and recreates the whole man, and perpetuates his personal identity through separate forms, whether it compels him to ascend or descend in the scale of being." ?
Consciousness does not pass from one life to another. Consciousness cannot live apart from the body which is an aggregate of the five Skandhas. Buddhaghosa clears this point in Visuddhim. gga in the following manner : "For at the hour of death the last conscious act is as a man who, to cross a ditch, swings himself over by a rope hung upon a tree above him. Yet he does not really alight, for
1 Silācāra Blikkhu : The Buddhist Chronicle, March 12,1922.
p. 7.
2 Williams-Monier Monier : Buddhism. p. 110.
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