In Buddhism

Masao Abe: However, a cosmological dimension is the necessary basis for this Buddhist salvation: in Buddhism salvation is not from sin as rebellion against God, but emancipation from the cycle of birth and death which is part of transience of the universe. This is the cosmological aspect of Buddhism. These two aspects are inseparable; the more cosmological the basis of salvation.

Dalai Lama:The Buddha said 'Salvation doesn't come from the sight of me. It demands strenuous effort and practise. So work hard and seek your own salvation constantly.'

• The word save means an act which is done by someone, a positive act, including rescue. But the Dhamma saves not in that sense. The Dhamma teaches the human being to save oneself. It is not an act that other can do for someone. It is what one does to oneself. Therefore the term "Salvation" itself is not much relevant in the Buddhist concept. The Buddhist concept is Nibbana. Nibbana or Nirvana implying extinction, freedom, emancipation, liberation, release, deliverance, etc. However, the word ‘Salvation’ can also be used as an umbrella for Nibbana or Nirvana.
  • Radha Banerjee, in The Concept of Salvation in Buddhism Jan 10, 2010

• Work out your salvation. Do not depend on others.
  • Buddha, in “The Road to Begin Your Life (27-Sep-2007)”, p. 58.

• Buddhist salvation is primarily concerned with individual persons, and is simply not concerned with humankind in general, for as is written in a sutra: ‘One is born alone, dies alone, comes alone and goes alone’.
  • Masao Abe, Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and ..., (1995), p. 80-81.

• Buddhism is primarily concerned with salvation of a human as a person who, unlike other living beings, has self-consciousness and free will and thereby alone has the potential to become aware of and emancipated from the transience common to all things in the universe. This is existentialist and personalistic aspect of Buddhism
  • Masao Abe, in "Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and … (1995)}, p. 81.

• However, a cosmological dimension is the necessary basis for this Buddhist salvation: in Buddhism salvation is not from sin as rebellion against God, but emancipation from the cycle of birth and death which is part of transience of the universe. This is the cosmological aspect of Buddhism. These two aspects are inseparable; the more cosmological the basis of salvation
  • Masao Abe, in "Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and … (1995)}, p. 81.

• The Buddha said 'Salvation doesn't come from the sight of me. It demands strenuous effort and practise. So work hard and seek your own salvation constantly.'
  • Dalai Lama, in Seven Years in Tibet (1997).

• The process of salvation in Buddhism and Christianity are functions of their respective doctrines of ultimate reality and the nature of man. In a phrase we might sum up Buddhism’s view: "salvation is from the self". To start with the last; Buddhism insists that believes and practices self-slavation...As to salvation from self, Buddhism conceives belief in integrality and reality of the self to be the major obstacle to man’s salvation.
  • Winston Lee King, Winston L King, in Buddhism and Christianity: Some Bridges of Understanding, 16-Oct-2013, p. 23.

In Christianity

An allegory of salvation

Annie Besant:I might be ready to kneel before the cross of Good Friday, to stand beside the sepulcher on Easter Day. In order to facilitate the realization of those last sacred days of God incarnate on earth, working out man’s salvation, I resolved to write a brief history of that week, compiled from Four Gospels, meaning them to try and realize each day the occurrences that had happened on the corresponding day in AD 33, and so to follow those “blessed feet” step by step, till they were ...nailed for our advantage to the bitter cross.

John Calvin: God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Alfred H. Ackley: He lives, he lives, Christ Jesus lives today;
He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way.
He lives, he lives salvation to impart;
You ask me how I know he lives”
He lives within my heart.

Anne Hutchinson:One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Brennan Manning: Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands (see Revelation 7:9),...

A.W. Tozer:... Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him. He oppressed must be saved,
not with a revolutionary salvation,
in mere human fashion,
but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man,
who dies on the cross to cleanse God’s image,
which is soiled in today’s humanity,
a humanity so enslaved,
so selfish, so sinful.

• Paul says that all humans are condemned under the law, and justifiably so. This is why salvation is through spiritual rebirth in love for Christ and not through obedience to the Judaic laws. (Rom. 3:28)
  • Masao Abe, in “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and … (1995) “, p. 14.

• He lives, he lives, Christ Jesus lives today;
  He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way.
  He lives, he lives salvation to impart;
  You ask me how I know he lives”
  He lives within my heart.
  • Alfred H. Ackley, in “Words of Wisdom, Too (1 January 1998)”, p. 94.

• Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
  • Thomas Aquinas, The Soul of a Nation: Culture, Morality, Law, Education, Faith, 27-Sep-2012, p. 27.

• Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
  • Henri Frederic Amiel, Quotes about Sacrifice, p. 1.

• Surely we may hope that as men get to see that prayer has not succeeded in its efforts to "move the arm which moves the world, to bring salvation down, they may turn to the more difficult, but also the more hopeful task, of moving their own arms to work out for their own salvation.
  • Annie Besant (2012), in The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant, p. 173.

• I might be ready to kneel before the cross of Good Friday, to stand beside the sepulcher on Easter Day. In order to facilitate the realization of those last sacred days of God incarnate on earth, working out man’s salvation, I resolved to write a brief history of that week, compiled from Four Gospels, meaning them to try and realize each day the occurrences that had happened on the corresponding day in AD 33, and so to follow those “blessed feet” step by step, till they were ...nailed for our advantage to the bitter cross.
  • Annie Besant, in “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”, p. 59.

• He is a being who has attained what is called ‘liberation' in the East, what is called salvation in the West; a being whose soul and Spirit have become unified, who lives consciously on the higher plane of our own universe – the fivefold universe – and whose centre of consciousness is on the atmic, sometimes called the nirvanic, plane.
  • Annie Besant, Annie Besant's London Lectures of 1907, (2008), p. 78.

• Poor victims of a civilization that hides its brutality beneath a veneer of culture and of grace, for them individually there is, alas! No salvation.
  • Annie Besant, in “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”, p. 309.

• My mother had an intense longing to communicate before she died. “If it is necessary to salvation," she persisted, doggedly, "I will not take it if darling Annie is to be shut out.” I would be rather lost with her than saved without her.
  • Annie Besant, Annie Besant: An Autobiography, (10 March 2011), p. 122.

• Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
  • Ezra Taft Benson, God's Prophets Speak, p. 8.

• No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
  • John Calvin, John Calvin's Commentaries On The Acts. Vol. 1, 2012, p. 22.

• God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
  • John Calvin, Civility: A Cultural History, 18-Apr-2009, p. 157.

• How much more should you make sure that you have “put on” the Lord Jesus Christ? This is your eternal salvation we are talking about, so obey the admonition to make your calling and election sure. There's nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
  • Kirk Cameron et al (2011), in Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith: An Evangelism Made Easy, p. 189.

• For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in (1961), in Notes from underground, White nights, The dream of a ridiculous man, and selections from The House of the dead..

• In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
  • Pope Francis, in Francis Becomes First Latin American Pope (13 March 2013).

• People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
  • William Faulkner, On Faulkner, p. 265.

• The work of salvation, in its full sense, is about whole human beings, not merely souls; about the present, not simply the future; and about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.
  • Gospel, Death by Church, (1 January 2009), p. 100.

• Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.
  • Billy Graham, in Billy Graham: His Life and Influence (9 October 2007), p. 37.

• One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
  • Anne Hutchinson, Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877, (1 January 2011), p. 64.

• After this I saw, and look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. And they keep shouting with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
  • John the Evangelist, Revelation 7:9, New World Translation

• Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we will never achieve.
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski, in “The Road to Begin Your Life (27-Sep-2007)”, p. 58.

• None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
  • Dean Koontz, in One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel.

• Can you help save one person...? That would be great wouldn’t it? The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
  • C.S. Lewis, in “The Road to Begin Your Life ((27 September 2007))”, 58.

• The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting.
  • John Locke, Words of Wisdom, Too, (1 January 1998), p. 218.

• A mighty fortress is our God,
  A sword and shield victorious;
  He breaks the cruel oppressors rod And wins salvation glorious.
  • Martin Luther, in “Words of Wisdom, Too (1 January 1998)”, p. 140.

• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources, 1998, p. 107.

• Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands (see Revelation 7:9), I shall see the prostitute from the Kit-Kat Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, who tearfully told me that she could find no other employment to support her two-year-old son. I shall see the woman who had an abortion and is haunted by guilt and remorse but did the best she could faced with grueling alternatives; the businessman besieged with debt who sold his integrity in a series of desperate transactions; the insecure clergyman addicted to being liked, who never challenged his people from the pulpit and longed for unconditional love; the sexually abused teen molested by his father and now selling his body on the street, who, as he falls asleep each night after his last 'trick', whispers the name of the unknown God he learned about in Sunday school; the deathbed convert who for decades had his cake and ate it, broke every law of God and man, wallowed in lust, and raped the earth.
  • Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out, (19 August 2008), p. 122-23.

• The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit salvation. Yet they opened themselves to the gift that was offered them. On the other hand, the self-righteous placed their trust in the works of the Law and closed their hearts to the message of grace.
  • Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out, (19 August 2008), p. 41.

• One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.
  • Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out, 19-Aug-2008, p106.

• I not only questioned the possibility that salvation existed; I questioned whether God’s salvation was worth the earning. Again I began to see the struggle between God and Lucifer as nothing more than a squabble between petty princelings over who should possess power in a tiny, unimportant territory. The fate of the tenants of that territory did not much seem to matter to them; and even the reward of those tenants’ loyalty seemed thin enough to me.
  • Michael Moorcock, The War Hound and the World’s Pain (1981), Chapter 8

• For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near (Rom. 13:11–12).
  • Paul, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith, (1 January 2012), p. 78.

• Because he loves me”, says the Lord I will rescue him;
  I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name
  He will call upon me, and I will answer him;
  I will be with him in trouble,
  I will deliver him and honor him.
  With long life I will satisfy him.
  And show him my salvation.
  • Psalm (91:1-16), in “Words of Wisdom, Too (1 January 1998)” p. 218.

• Let us be today’s Christians.
  Let us not take fright
  at the boldness of today’s church.
  With Christ’s light let us illuminate
  even the most hideous caverns of the human person:
  torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness.
  The oppressed must be saved,
  not with a revolutionary salvation,
  in mere human fashion,
  but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man,
  who dies on the cross to cleanse God’s image,
  which is soiled in today’s humanity,
  a humanity so enslaved,
  so selfish, so sinful.
  • Oscar A. Romero, in Let Us Be Today’s Christians”: The Words of Óscar Romero (24 MARCH 2014 ).

• The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca, The Road to Begin Your Life, (27-Sep-2007), p. 58.

• The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
  • Charles Spurgeon, Enriching Christian Doctrine and Character, (13 January 2009), p. 41.

• And, again, salvation by Jesus Christ comes to men in the same way as it always did. They have to receive it, now, by faith.
  • C. H. Spurgeon, in The Unchangeable Christ (23 February 1888).

• This salvation is just the same as to the persons to whom it is sent. It is to be preached, now, as always, to every creature under Heaven. But it appeals with a peculiar power to those who are guilty and who, by God's Grace, confess their guilt. It appeals to hearts that are broken, to men who are weary and heavy laden. It is to these that the Gospel comes with great sweetness
  • C. H. Spurgeon, in "The Unchangeable Christ (23 February 1888)".

• If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
  • A.W. Tozer, in The Parish Newsletter of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church April 2014

• O my hearers think of the wrath to come! Think of the wrath to come! Flee to Jesus for refuge and salvation right now while there is still time.
  • George Whitefield, The Speaker's Quote Book: Over 5,000 Illustrations and Quotations for All, (2009), p. 37.

• The Bible...is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and Spiritual nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
  • Woodrow Wilson, in “Words of Wisdom, Too (1 January 1998)”, p. 18.

In Hinduism

Worship of Ganga River - Padma Purana:What need of expensive sacrifices,
Or of difficult penances?
Worship Ganga, asking for happiness
and good fortune,
and she will bring you heaven
and salvation.

• Purity of character and salvation depend on purity of heart. We should, by living the life according to our lights share the best with one another, thus adding to the sum total of human effort to reach God.
  • Mahatma Gandhi, in A Critique of Gandhi on Christianity

• What need of expensive sacrifices,
  Or of difficult penances?
  Worship Ganga, asking for happiness
  and good fortune,
  and she will bring you heaven
  and salvation.
  • Padma Purana (v.60.39), in The Ganges in Myth and History, (1 January 2001), p. 14.

• Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
  • Swami Sivananda, Immortal Teachings of Sri Swami Sivananda, 1957, p. 29.

• We must remember that the Hindu religion lays down distinctly and clearly that every one who wants salvation must pass through the stage of Rishihood [Life of a Saint], must become a Mantra-drashta, must see God. That is salvation; that is the law laid down by our scriptures.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in Vivekananda Vedanta Lecture - You must see God!

• Be strong! Don’t talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita III (29 May 1900).

• Everyone must work out his own salvation.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/XX Diwanji Saheb (20 June 1894).

• There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India, (1932).

• Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in From Colombo to Almora: Being a Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission ...

• Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/Breathing

• This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Lectures from Colombo to Almora/The Vedanta

• But salvation is in work and love. You learn something thoroughly; in time you may not be able to call that thing to memory. Yet it has sunk into your inner consciousness and is a part of you. So as you work, whether it be good or bad, you shape your future course of life. If you do good work with the idea of work — work for work's sake — you will go to heaven of your idea and dream of heaven.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in Way to Salvation (Report of a lecture delivered in Oakland on Monday, March 12, 1900, with editorial comments of the Oakland Enquirer

• Salvation never will come through hope of reward.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 2/Jnana-Yoga/The Atman

• The road to salvation is through truth.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in in [The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Soul And God

• To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 4/Lectures and Discourses/Christ, the Messenger

• Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Lectures and Discourses/Unity, the Goal of Religion

• What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.
  • Swami Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Buddhistic India

In Islam

And there is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah: And Allah is full of kindness to (His) devotees.

• Ancient Islam was not a religion of salvation, though the pure form later gave way to salvation ideas during the Middle Ages.
  • Max Weber, Resurgent Islam: A Sociological Approach, (11 November 2005), p. 75.

• First warrior bands adapted Quranic monotheism to the demand of their life style with the result that the quest for salvation became interpreted in terms of the jihad, or holy war, with warriors promised salvation if they die in battle. Second, the growth and expansion of the mystical Sufi brotherhoods (c.700-800) produced an interpretation of Islam that relied on perception of believers as vessels of divine power, leading to a passive acceptance or restfulness rather an engagement with this-worldly matters. Indeed this-worldly engagement was seen as giving into the world and its profane demands. So, with these two group carriers, Islamic salvation beliefs produced either a passive attitude to the world or support for warriors in Islamic war of conquests.
  • H. Goldman, in "Resurgent Islam: A Sociological Approach (11 November 2005)", P.76.

• Salvation in Islam is for the most part a future state experienced only in the hereafter. It includes pardon from past sins and deliverance from hell, as well as gaining God’s favour and acceptance to heaven.
  • Norman L. Geisler, Abdul Saleeb, in Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross, (01-Aug-2002), p. 124.

• For Muslims God’s mercy and forgiveness plays a fundamental role in salvation.
  • Norman L. Geisler, Abdul Saleeb, in "Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross (01-Aug-2002)", p. 127.

• Observe moderation in deeds (and if it is not possible, try to be near moderation) and understand that none amongst you can attain salvation because of his deeds alone. They said: Allah's Messenger, not even you? Thereupon he said: Not even I, but that Allah should wrap me in His Mercy and Grace.
  • Hadith in Sahih Muslim, Book 39, Number 6765

• But Allah will deliver the righteous to their place of salvation: no evil shall touch them, nor shall they grieve.
  • Qur'an, Az-Zumar 39:61, Yusuf Ali.

• And there is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah: And Allah is full of kindness to (His) devotees.
  • Qur'an, Al-Baqara 2:207, Yusuf Ali.

• Then those whose balance (of good deeds) is heavy,- they will attain salvation: But those whose balance is light, will be those who have lost their souls, in Hell will they abide.
  • Qur'an, Al-Mu'minun 23:102-103, Yusuf Ali.

• Therefore, in the Islamic view, human beings are no more "fallen" than they are "saved". Because they are not "fallen", they have no need of a saviour. But because they are not "saved" either, they need to do good works - and do them ethically - which alone will earn them the desired "salvation", one must be in a predicament beyond the hope of ever escaping it. But men and women are not in that predicament. Humans are not ethically powerless They are not helpless puppets capable of neither good nor evil. They are capable of both. To "save" themselves by deeds and works is their pride and glory. To miss the chance and all the opportunities by is pitiable neglect; to miss the calling deliberately and to do evil is to earn punishment, to deserve damnation.
  • Isma’il Al-Faruqi, as quoted in “Salvation in Islamic perspective.” Islamic Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, 1993, pp. 41. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, JSTOR.

In Jainism

Helmuth von Glasenapp:The doctrine of the Jainas who let their Prophet Parsva proclaim in the 8th century BC – the difference between mind and matter and of salvation by the liberation of an individual soul from matter.

• The doctrine of the Jainas who let their Prophet Parsva proclaim in the 8th century BC – the difference between mind and matter and of salvation by the liberation of an individual soul from matter.
  • Helmuth von Glasenapp, in Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation, (1 January 1999), p. 24.

• ...according to the belief of the Digambaras, only men can get salvation, this is not possible to the other sexes. P.240,
  • Helmuth von Glasenapp, in "Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation (1 January 1999)", p. 240.

• ...Both hold the view [ Jain sects of Svetambara and Digambara Jains] hold the view that only human beings can get salvation; gods and other beings which are capable of getting salvation according to other Indian systems, do not have it according to Jaina-teachings. They have to be born again as human beings when they become mature for this highest spiritual development to be able to accomplish complete absolution from all earthly passions.
  • Helmuth von Glasenapp, in "Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation (1 January 1999)", p. 240.

• Karma for Hindus is adrisya, an invisible power, for Jainas, it is a complex of fine particle of matter, and karma infects their souls; for many Hindus, salvation can be achieved through divine mercy, as a consequence of evident and sincere resignation towards Ishvara, for Jainas, only through the incessant work on one’s own self; for most of the Hindus, there is no limit to the capability of salvation, Jainas make a distinction between bhavyas and abhavyas; for most of Hindus, salvation consists either in the eternal stay of the soul in the paradise of Ishvara or in complete merger with the universal soul, for Jainas, it is in the unperturbed actionless peace of the omniscient on the peak of the universe. Finally, and above all, Jainism has a number of concepts which are alien to the metaphysical systems of the Hindus..., it has an independent epistemology and dialectics (Syadvada) and uses terminology which is peculiar to it alone.
  • Helmuth von Glasenapp, in "Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation (1 January 1999)", P.496.