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58 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS and Vaiseșikas believe in independent eternalities and noneternalities, being and non-being, community and difference, and non-eternality of the word. The Mimärsakas affirm eternality and non-eternality, separateness and identity, being and non-being, community and difference, and the eternality of the Word. Some postulate either Time, Nature, Necessity, Karma, or Puruşa as the origin of the Universe; and the Monists, who advocate the doctrine of Word-Bralıma-Gnosis, believe in their identity. The different aspects of truth accepted by these sectarians, when related to one another, all together become one Grand Truth; but, if they do not join hands, they contradict one another, and in so doing they are changed into the flower of the sky' (which is not a real thing, but an illusion of the mind."
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