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form tangle is unraveled only when the third eye of anekanta opens. Acharya Haribhadra has said: Pakshapato na me vire na, dweshaha kapiladisu Yuktimad vachanam yasya tasya karyaha
parigrahaha. I am not prejudiced in favour of Mahavira nor am I prejudiced against the sage Kapila. Mahavira is not my friend nor is Kapila my enemy. I respect the one whose words are full of reason.
These words could have been spoken only on the basis of anekanta. Only that person whose third eye of anekanta has been awakened can say these words.
There is a text written by Acharya Haribadra called Shasravarta samuchay. In this text he has shown the mutual connection between seemingly opposing beliefs. Through this exercise he has made anekanta very powerful.
To the one whose third eye has been awakened nothing is false. His constant touchstone for truth and untruth would be: that which is relative is the truth and that which is absolute, devoid of any relativity would be false. Beyond this there is nothing else. It is on this touchstone that he accepts a belief or rejects one. He does not find out where this
Acharya Mahaprajna
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