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word, Vak, manifests itself in the evanescent phases of the Vaikhari, the Madhyama and the Pasyanti and the Vedantins contending that the same immutable self appears in the changing states of the Jagrat (the waking ), the Svapna ( the dream ) and the Susupti (the dreamless sleep ) are basing their views on the Anekantavada or the theory of many aspects.
In the same manner, Plato's archetypal and eternal ideas manifesting themselves in the passing phenomena; Aristotle's immanent ideas realising themselves in and through the particularities, Spinoza's transcendental substance, manifesting itself through its attributes of extension and consciousness; Libnitze's “windowless " Monads mirroring the universe, Kant's abstract thingsin themselves of Pure Reason being the selfmanifesting active principles of his Practical Reason; Spencer's “ Unknowable" revealing itself in the worlds of matter, life and mind; Fichte's absolute Self in its self-limitations; Hegel's Idea realising itself in and through the others, evolved from within itself,-are all acknowledgments that Reality does not consist in an immutable and abstract nature but that it is a dynamio principle, involving manifold aspects.
The above nature of the Sapta Bhanga
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