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decay and has nothing of an abiding character in it. For it is the very nature of things that they are permanent in their original character, but undergo different modifications according to circumstances. Stability and changeability therefore, are not naturally contradictory but are both real and do reside in one and the same thing. Not only that but both are absolutely essential for an integral entity. 12
SANMATI-TARKA
In the following verse the author explains as to how both these Nayas become wrong in their exclusive assertions:
gu yu eingen afsasagzeu gàué fq 1 arer fu¬gfagt ¶à¤ à fa qamar || 23 !!
These three characteristics of birth, decay and stability must dwell together in harmony to make a real definition of a thing in its integral form. Each Naya therefore, if taken independently, isolated from the other, can never yield an adequate idea of Sat an entity. Both these, therefore, divorced from each other, are wrong in their standpoints.
The reason, why these two Nayas in their exclusiveness are worng, is this that they in their individual capacity cannot give a perfect definition of Sat i.e.
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