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This great religion does not invite the whole jain community or each and every
man and women for this type of penance and thinking. This religion says that every
body need not do this kind of penance and it is not possible also. It gives the
liberty of choosing the way of life a person wants to live. But it lays down certain
strictures for him to follow, like non-violence, feeding the poor, feeding small
animals, giving due respect to their master, etc.
Buddhist philosophy is surrendering oneself to the thinking mind. This action
will augment their knowledge to think more and more and reach the higher state
of intellectual caliber. The result is absolutism or nirvana. All living buddhist
monks are solely devoted to this principle alone. This type of worshipping by
the buddhists is itself a liberation to their mind. According to Lord Buddha,
mind's tendency is to immediately cling to a particular object or thinking is
a great farce and this action of his brain ability will make a man to put a bondage
on his own thinking brain. So he ordered the people who follow his line and principles
to surrender themselves to their own mind. This action itself is a worship of
the buddhists. Their aim and goal is called absolutism or nirvana. It is fully
based on the mind, the gnanandriya or the brain.
The nirvana of the jains is also termed as the absolutism of their goal and aim.
It is salvation through their penance and their act of controlling the five sensory
organs. They say indhriya nigraha itself is a penance.
Buddhism and Jainism at any time are not parallel to each other. They are two
different ways. This should be understood by all before going into these two religions.
Coming to the nethi point of the Hindu philosophy, it is one of the ways in Hinduism.
One is to probe and search the first cause, the God (the Creator) or to deny the
first cause and declare that the creations of the world and all their phenomena
are natural in their own way. Nethi philosophy is one school of thought of the
Hindus and the other one is the existence of the personal God and its concept.
It is like both sides of the same coin.
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