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The Buddha was a Practical thin-

ket, He adviced his followers not'

to'indulgeinto speculative flight or

imaginary gossiPs. He adviced them

to solve the basic Problems of lifedirectly and in this very life' The ba-'

sic problem,acg.glding to BuddhistFhilosophy,!s the,suffering ( Dukkha)'

The Buddha while casting the ^Goffl-

passionate eYe on the beings found

that the people are trennbling due to

.ru*rul types gf sufferings' These-su-'

fferings do no],end in this very life,

but gg on renewing. The verY *ldof. ones life serves as the cause for

the existencq of another alld thereby

extending the range of quffering. ineach state of existence. Seeing thisas universal Phenomena th-e Bud-

dha desided 'to 'eradictea' it, bY

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, by: Om Prakash Pathak a1! Or' Yelna ," 'Dept. of Buddhist Studies,: .UniversitY of Delhi; ' "

Delhi't10007(lndio)' . ''

ascfibing' tho holY: 1ig- which'ta-kes a being from the state of suffe:'ring to the sta.teiof eternal'bliss' The

holy path whiah he Prescribes is a'graduated Path and contains three

steps- namelY. Sila, samadhi & Pan-.:,.na.

Sila is the first step. By following

the Sila, beings can curtail the phy-'

sical & vocal misdeeds attd thereby

make them Pure - both lihYsicallY& vocally: The Path of Sila leads'ione towards an ideal societY and

minimises the sufferings' ,. i, :lSarnadhi comes after the Sila,

which curtails the rnental misdeeds

and makes the'mind pure'. If the mi'

sdeeds of the mind are purified, it is

natura! that the Pure rnind, will be

an asset to the societY' when bodY

luI

and mind becomes pure and serene, fruits si,rilarly' sila serves as a 8ro'

panna is achieved. und of moral states' sila is also des'

Panna makes the nature of ireali- cribed in the sense of cooling (Sita-

ty crystal clear. The man unddrstan- latthena silam)' As the paste of san-

is the things as they really are' eli- dal wood when applied makes one

minates the attachment therewith feel cool with nice fragrance simila-

and attains a state which is full of rly, all the burnings causee by the

bliss. In this way by following the attachment hatred & ignorance are

pathofBuddbaamangraduallyextinguishedbySilaandmanfindsmakes himself pure and goes' away himself cool'

Sila has also been des'

from the state of suffering to the st- cribed in the sense of washing' Just

atc of eternal bliss' The path is also as the water of the river washes the

called the eight-fold path or the mi- dirt when a person dips into it' so

ddle path (majjhima patipada). also Sila washes away the sins of

In the pres€nt context I do not one who practices it'

like to go into the detail analysis of The Silh has a very important fu-the path of the Buddha as a whole r,rction. It takes virtues of the manbut limit myself to study of Sila only fromlone place to another, as' thewhich is the means of purification wind takes ihe fragrance of sweetof physical and vocal misdeeds' flswers from one place t. another'

Sila has been desoribed ,in -many fn this context we see, there is limi-ways. It is geneially used in the se- ,r;t", of the wind as it can carry

ffili:":fl::';:*',"J11,# X **1'"'11"#[ l;;il" ;::' J;the various types of Plant grow and

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1be fame of a virtuous man

e moral states devlop on the silr.; to all the dlrections irrespective of

the earth is the basic ground t;; ;i t:t t':: or the wind' In this wav

plants which produce flowers and the luu functios, as fhe basic

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gTound of virtuous life makingthe rnan cool by driving away the

burning sensations and carries his

name and fame in-all the directions.

Just as the architect before constru-

ctiqg build.ing levels the ground soalso the Sila destroys the immoraldeeds and misdeeds of the consciou-

Liress & prepares ground for the hi--gher life. It manifests purity & pre-

pares a conginial atmosPhers forSamadhi

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