The University of Nalanda c16.15

c16.15

The loss of Imperial grace was not the only cause. There were other reasons too for its disappearance. These were mainly internal; those which affected the system itself. Of these, its pessimistic outlook on life, conveyed by the famous phrases, such as *Sarvam Dukkham, Sarvam anityam, Sarvam anātmyam,* "All is suffering, all is impermanent, all is Non-Soul," and its deficiency in supplying a deity seem to be the primary and cardinal defects. In Chapter IV, while dealing with Tāntrism, we have already referred to the fact that the common mind found no consolation, on the contrary it felt