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labyrinth. This is not one that makes you lose your way or one that complicates matters. It is the mantra for easy and simple solutions to all of life's problems. A man is not cheated and he does not create any new problems if he functions on the basis of anekanta.
Relativity is a great solution. When relativity is forgotten then we have conflicts, war. The reason for conflict is lack of relativity. The reason for conflict comes from a single dimensional viewpoint. The reason for conflict comes from not knowing the limits. It is necessary to know the limits.
A patient knocked on a doctor's door. It was midnight. The doctor was sleeping. Hearing the knock he came out. The patient said, “Doctor, a dog has bitten me.” Replied the doctor, “Stupid. Look what the board says I do not see patients after nine o'clock at night." Said the patient, “I read the board, doctor, but what can I do! The dog did not know that it should not bite after nine o'clock at night.”
Without relativity, without knowing the limits, we can talk of cutting, but not of binding.
In this world nobody is complete. Everybody is incomplete. Nothing is absolute, everything is relative. This is a fact in the social context as well as
Acharya Mahaprajna
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