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Moreover from the standpoint of time, it must be admitted that the present ear-ring is certainly different from the same ear-ring in the past or for the matter of that the same ear-ring in future, Not only that but two ear-rings existing at one and the same time are different from each other from the standpoint of peculiar individual difference granting that both the ear-rings are made of gold, both are shaped as ear-ring, both have the same yellow colour, the same softness and other attributes, it must be said that both the ear-rings are different from one another. In the first place, the portion of gold in each is obviously different, moreover though the yellowness and softness in both appears to be exactly similar yet there is always some sort of difference at least in the yellowness or softness of both. There are infinite degrees of yellowness, softness or any other quality. There is, therefore, at least a very small difference in degree as. regards the attributes of things. 5, 6.
The following verse says that both difference and sameness can reside in one and the same person :
कोवं उप्पायंतो पुरिसो जीवस्स कारओ होइ। तत्तो विभएयव्वो परम्म सयमेव भइयव्वो ॥ ७ ॥
A person, who on account of his passions in the present life, which becomes a cause of his future life is obviously different from
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