Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c22.s1.8

c22.s1.8

Here we have, it is clear, something comparable with the absolute of the Vedānta, but at the same time there is much more reality in the new conception, and for all practical purposes a fundamentally novel mode of presenting the operation of the divine essence is revealed. We have in the conception of the activity of suchness as realized in the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, unfolding itself in order to induce all beings to bring their store of merit to maturity, a much more effective version of the suggestion of the *Katha Upaniṣad*¹ that the attainment of deliverance is due to the grace of the Lord; the absolute itself is ever co-operating with the individual to secure him attainment of itself both directly and through the means of others.