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“Your majesty! My mother's name is misfortune and your mother's name is fortune. Both misfortune and fortune are sisters. I am your mother's sister's son. Sir, I am your cousin."
The king was extremely pleased with what the Brahmin had said and gave him many gifts and embraced him as one would a brother.
Anekanta is life's philosophy
Nothing is independent. Everything is connected. Always a difference or always a similarity, always opposition or always syncronization, always one's own or always somebody else's... these are all just illusions, not reality. If we want to live in reality then we have to develop the anekantic view in our practical life. The biggest mistake is that we have mistaken anekanta for philosophy. That only in discussions of truth does one use anekanta. This is a mistaken belief. That explanation which does not apply to real life does not apply to the quest for truth either. Life is also a truth. It is a great truth and all explanations derive from it. All principles, streams of thought and arguments originate from it. No truth or discussion can be located away from life.
Acharya Mahaprajna
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