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vigilant, the light of truth within will always keep glittering. The conclusion arrived at on truth based contemplation should, in the real sense be assumed as soul's voice.
Never Forget this Mode of The Realisation of Truth:
In connection with the realisation of truth we should always bear in mind Mahavira's Quoddammodo Doctrine (Syadvad). The mode of arguing that it may exist or may not exist has been dubbed by some ignorant persons as indeterminate (uncertain), but if pondered deeply it will be clear that by taking stand on the background of synthesizing the various thoughts without any one sided dogmatism, the realisation of the truth can be achieved with more ease-possibly any other background is not fruitful.
Perhaps this also is and perhaps that also is-inthis line of thinking all the aspects of truth are emphasized to be kept before our view. All know the fable of seven blind persons and an elephant. When one is solely insistent on any particular thinking, his position also becomes akin to those blind men
The blind who touched the elephant's back, he doggedly asserted the elephant to be like a wall, who caught the tail pronounced it like a string, who caught the feet compared it with a pillar. In this way all the blind began to express the form of an elephant according to their impression. It is no matter, if they only confined themselves to the figure description but they began to dispute quarrelsomely that whatever he was telling was the sole truth and that whatever other was describing was totally false.
Today's ideological differences have taken some such
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