"Buddhism does not totally deny the existence of a personality in an empirical sense. It only attempts to show that it does not exist in an ultimate sense. The Buddhist philosophical term for an individual is Santana, i.e., a flux or a continuity. It includes the mental and physical elements as well. The Kammic force of each individual binds the elements together. This uninterrupted flux or continuity of psycho-physical phenomenon, which is conditioned by Kamma, and not limited only to the present life, but having its source in the beginningless past and its continuation in the future — is the Buddhist substitute for the permanent ego or the immortal soul of other religions."
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Narada Maha Thera
1898 – 1983
Narada Mahathera [Sinhalese: නාරද මහා ස්ථවිරයන් වහන්සේ], born Sumanapala Perera (14 July 1898 – 2 October 1983) was a Theravadan Buddhist monk.
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