INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY – BUDDHISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON
THE SYSTEMS ABROAD
matters pertaining to human conduct other than its own
original Taoism.
The charm of Buddha, his purity and
compassion, which is the dynamic urge in him to
change and transform men into real seekers after
peace and health in the nirvana have always that
attractiveness which ages cannot remove. Even today
the message of Buddha appeals because there is in it
the secret of peaceful life, a life of renunciation and
reason, a profound inner satisfaction of going beyond
the ego of a thousand personalities or masks or births.
Buddha called upon man to form a true society
or egoless souls and his greatest concern was to see
that such a satsangh grew up and did not develop the
cult consciousness or church consciousness which is
but a glorified ego. That is why the nihilism of the ego in
whatever form or of whatever pattern individual or
social was his main consideration. Man should seek to
be nobody, he should absorb himself in the Buddha
who is absolutely free from all ego. Buddham Saranam
Gacchami prays the Buddhist and only secondly does
he say Dharmam Saranam Gacchami, which is the
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