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Sankhyas hold that the effect is existent because according to them a thing which was not previously existing never comes into being. Because the cause and the Effect are not really speaking different.
Vaiseșikas and others, on the other hand, regrad the Effect as previously not existing. Since they hold the theory of Arambha, i.e., creation, they maintain that the effect which was not existent is created by the cause. Others, again such as the absolutists or monists hold that there is only one thing in the universe and hence deny the existence of any such things as a cause and an effect. According to the theory of Pariņāma Vāda curd is only the transformation of milk, hence there is no difference what-so-ever between the two. According to tbe theory of Arambha a piece of cloth is created or prepared out of -collection of threads and therefore that piece of cloth is different from the collection. From the standpoint of a unonist the notion of a cause and an effect is false, Everything in the universe is the ultimate Reality. What the author means here is this :--If these three theories or views think themselves as possessing the entire truth of the matter and try to defend their own exclusive position without any regard to other rival views and run down other views as false all these theories are entirely wrong.
Qualified assertion (Sāpeksa Pratipādana) is the only right method. It means that every Naya should state its view in such a way as would not militate against the truth contained in the rival Naya and would try to defend its own partial truth in its own limited ecope. 27
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