The Religions of India c19.91

c19.91

² The twelve Nidānas are dogmatic, and withal not very logical. “From ignorance arise forms, from forms arises consciousness, from consciousness arise name and bodiness; from name and bodiness arise the six senses (including understanding as the sixth) and their objects; from these arises contact; from this, feeling; from this, thirst; from this, clinging; from clinging arises becoming; from becoming arises birth; from birth arise age and sorrow.” One must gradually free himself from the ten fetters that bind to life, and so do away with the first of these twelve Nidānas, ignorance.