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και beacon-light to him on the path to salvation till he attains the bliss of Nirvāna.
Syad-vāda affords great light to a man, who awakes from stupor and launches his journey onwards in search of truth. At the commencement of his journey he may experience embarrassment, may get shrouded in doubts and may fall in errors and illusions. In the unidst of a variety of theories, pertaining to deeper truth, he will demand an explanation acceptable both to reason and faith. He will complain that however earnest his craving, he cannot attain appreciable progress on the path to salvation, till be gets a solution acceptable both to reason and faith. To his doubts and problems, the Syād-vāda, offers a solution, he woefully needs. He finds that Syād-vāda cures the defects inherent in philosophies based on Ekānta-vāda. Having attained right knowledge with the help of Syad-vada he learns right conduct and continues his march onward on the path to salvation.
A seeker of truth, craving for enlightenment ought to deserve the Light. He must be magnanimous, well-balanced, wise and sedate. He must be unprejudiced and intelligent. His mind must not be a closed compartment, revelling in its own; ideas. Predilection for his own opinion must
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