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## Samantabhadra-Bharati
[ Chapter 1
**Gives too much even.** As a result, the patients die or suffer more pain and agony, and that person, not knowing the proper use of the poison, suffers punishment due to its misuse, and sometimes even consumes the poison himself and loses his life. In this way, just as one who is obsessed with poison is an enemy to himself and others, so too should those who are obsessed with one-sidedness be considered enemies to themselves and others.
To tell the truth, those who are averse to **anekanta** are also averse to their own one-sidedness; because without **anekanta**, they cannot establish one-sidedness - without **anekanta**, the existence of one-sidedness cannot come about in the same way that the existence of the particular cannot come about without the general, or the existence of the **paryaya** cannot come about without the **dravya**. Just as the general and the particular, existence and non-existence, and eternal and non-eternal qualities are mutually interdependent, without one the other cannot exist - in the same way, there is also a mutual interdependence between one-sidedness and **anekanta**. All these qualities with their opposites exist in the same object, mutually dependent on each other. For example, the ring finger is both small and large; it is larger than the little finger and smaller than the middle finger. In this way, both smallness and largeness are relative qualities in the ring finger, or there are two interdependent qualities of smallness in the form of existence and non-existence of smallness - without relativity, neither quality exists. Similarly, each bank of a river has both the qualities of this side and that side, and they remain non-contradictory only because they are relative.
Qualities that exist in the same object, mutually dependent on each other, are beneficial (friends) to themselves and others, and they are also...