By joining Samanas he is still continuing his period identified with thoughts. As Samanas, Siddhartha relinquishes all his possession and dedicates himself to meditation, fasting, and other methods of mortification. ... Even though through physical pain Siddhartha still cannot achieve Nirvana; with Samanas he is tangled in Samsara cycle. As with Brahmins, Siddhartha knows of no Samana who has actually attained Nirvana. ...

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Religion is found in some of the oldest cultures on Earth and was the foundation for many empires and nations. Yet religion in itself, has found its own meaning redefined again and again. In Huston Smith's "The World Religions," he purports that there are currently two conflicting schools of religio...

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