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THE Buddha has said: "Nobody but you can save yourselves. You, when well disciplined yourselves, become your own saviour." "The Buddha only shows the path: the path to deliverance from all sufferings and the way leading to perfect peace of mind, for it is the mind that really suffers. And this peace of mind is attained not by any kind of self-hypnosis nor by any temporary ecstatic state induced by concentration on some illusion.
It is to be achieved only by self-understanding of the actual nature of one's own being. It is this understanding of one's own self that can purge one's mind of all its depravities, of all its weaknesses, "paรฑรฑฤya parisujjhฤtiโ.
The Buddha's method of showing the way of self-realization, is expounded generally in all his teachings, but particularly in Abhidhamma. Without an exact knowledge of Abhidhamma, the higher doctrine, it may be said that one can know nothing of Buddhism as it is. Many are the manuals compiled by various authors to explain the Abhidhamma in Pali, Burmese, Sinhalese, and some other eastern languages, whereas there are very few books of this kind in English. So this treatise by Mr. C. P. Ranasinghe has supplied that long felt need.
ISBN: BUDDHASEXPLAN
