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{{Style S-Small capitals|Buddhism}} was a protest against Brahmanism. If the priestcraft had not been predominant, the system of caste, which was originally on the principle of the division of labour, had not grown into a social evil; and if the consumption of animal food and intoxicating drinks had not increased, it is doubtful whether Buddhism had been conceived, and matured as a creed. It took admirably, because the popular mind had been debased morally and socially, and a reaction was called for. The first thought of those who were the primitive Buddhists was how to effect the annihilation of pain. Buddhists did not originally believe in God, nor in the devil; but in ''Karma ''(merit and demerit) giving birth to new existence. They admitted, however, that intelligence “subsisted as self, and in that view only, it was ''(Atma) ''self or soul.” There are other proofs of its virtual recognition of the soul. Its leading doctrine was to rise above ''Upadana, i.e., ''attachment to sensuous objects. Its conception of heaven was that it consisted of two conditions, viz., ''Rupa Loka, ''or beings of form, and ''Arupa Loka, ''beings of no form, or spiritual beings. In this heaven there is no material reward, but ecstasy of real existence. This is the heaven for those who arrive at ''Nirvana. ''In the Dhamapada the word immortality occurs. There is also mention of “divine beings.” | {{Style S-Small capitals|Buddhism}} was a protest against Brahmanism. If the priestcraft had not been predominant, the system of caste, which was originally on the principle of the division of labour, had not grown into a social evil; and if the consumption of animal food and intoxicating drinks had not increased, it is doubtful whether Buddhism had been conceived, and matured as a creed. It took admirably, because the popular mind had been debased morally and socially, and a reaction was called for. The first thought of those who were the primitive Buddhists was how to effect the annihilation of pain. Buddhists did not originally believe in God, nor in the devil; but in ''Karma ''(merit and demerit) giving birth to new existence. They admitted, however, that intelligence “subsisted as self, and in that view only, it was ''(Atma) ''self or soul.” There are other proofs of its virtual recognition of the soul. Its leading doctrine was to rise above ''Upadana, i.e., ''attachment to sensuous objects. Its conception of heaven was that it consisted of two conditions, viz., ''Rupa Loka, ''or beings of form, and ''Arupa Loka, ''beings of no form, or spiritual beings. In this heaven there is no material reward, but ecstasy of real existence. This is the heaven for those who arrive at ''Nirvana. ''In the Dhamapada the word immortality occurs. There is also mention of “divine beings.” | ||
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london_spiritualist_n.274_1877-11-23.pdf|page=13|London Spiritualist, No. 274, November 23, 1877, pp. 251-2 | london_spiritualist_n.274_1877-11-23.pdf|page=13|London Spiritualist, No. 274, November 23, 1877, pp. 251-2 | ||