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and scientists are still trying to understand it. But this concept has been accepted many centuries ago that the whole body performs the activity of the sense organs. One sensory organ can perform the job of another or we can say that the whole body may be used as a sensory organ.
Expressed: Unexpressed
Differences in manifested expressions or those differences that appear on the surface disappear when one looks deeper into the matter or look for the more subtle principles. When the vision is deep then all the rules break. The rules of the manifest world are always different from those of the unexpressed, un-manifested world. The difficulty facing us is that we want to define the unmanifested through the manifested as also define the manifested through the manifested itself. What we forget or do not accept is that this world is a very small one; it is a world of waves. But we never care to look at the large ocean of truth that lies beneath these waves. We base all our understanding of truth purely on the basis of the expressed, manifested world. Anekanta cautions against this. Do not give in to
Acharya Mahaprajna
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