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Through this many possibilities in knowledge, science and human personality are dancing on the wedge of existence. Nothing can be rejected. We find new discoveries everyday. The follower of anekanta should not be surprised. He knows that one and many go hand in hand. Truth and untruth go hand in hand. One mode is in existence and the other not in existence. What is in existence today may not be so tomorrow and what is not in existence today may be in existence tomorrow. In day-to-day life, when one man comes to power, another goes. The second comes into power; the first goes out of power. This is the order in the world of existence. Who thought that a member of the plant world would get moksha (nirvana)? Who thought undeveloped creatures with unmanifested intelligence would become omniscient (kevali)? This happened to Adi Tirthankar Rishab's mother Marudeva.' If we go only by appearances and what meets the eye in the present, then we can never imagine such a possibility. All this happens due to the unmanifested modes.
It is definite that both existence and non-existence are of the self. The existence of kaivallya (or the person with complete knowledge) is of the self and
Anekanta: The Third Eye
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