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and principles are based on the observations of the gross modes of the world. We should not mistake them for eternal rules, for rules governing reality, for the rules for the world of the subtle.
Transcendental and Pragmatic (Nischay and Vyavahar)
Anekanta has defined both the subtle and the gross and presented their respective perspectives. The two perspectives are the nischay naya or the transcendental perspective and the vyavahar naya or the pragmatic perspective. To know the subtle truths the nischay naya helps and to know the gross truths, vyavahara naya helps. When both these perspectives are relative, mutually connected, then we arrive at the conclusion that similarity and dissimilarity are not independent but mutually connected. A whole thinking based on mutual connection is then opened to us. It is on the basis of this mutual connection that Jain seers of medieval times have done a great deal of work and with every philosophy have shown the path of concord.
One Jain seer has written that there is no difference between soul and matter. The difference is only in
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