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Samantabhadra-Bharati
[Chapter 1 (Birth) does not even form, the fruits of good and bad karmas do not form either, and neither do bondage and liberation form - the correct arrangement of any principle or substance does not sit. And in this way, their opinion is not only directly obstructed, but it is also an obstruction to their own beloved from their own beloved.]
Explanation: In reality, every object is anekantaatmak - it has many ant-dharmas, guna-svabhavas, angas or anshas. A person who sees any object from one side, who looks at only one of its ant-dharmas or guna-svabhavas, cannot be called a samyagdrasht (one who sees-recognizes it correctly). To be a samyagdrasht, one must see the object from all sides and look at all its ends, angas, dharmas or svabhavas. A person who judges a coin by seeing only one side of it, does not understand that coin when he sees it lying on its other side, and therefore is deceived. For this reason, anekanta-drishti is called samyagdristi and ekanta-drishti is called mithyadristi.
A person who sees only one end, anga, dharma or guna-svabhavas of an object and considers it to be of that very nature - does not accept another form - and in this way creates his own ekanta-धारणा and keeps it nourished somehow, is called 'ekanta-graharakt', ekanta-pakshapaati or sarvatha ekanta-vaadi. Such people, like the blind-born men who make the law of the elephant's form, fight among themselves and become enemies of each other, where they become enemies, they consider themselves to be the elephant's 1. Anekantaatmadrististe sati shunyyo viparyayaha. Tatah sarva mrishuktam syat tadayuktam svaghatatah ||
- Swayambhustotra