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moves back. Following this order, she is able to extract butter. If both the hands were to go ahead together and go back also together, then the process of churning will not happen and no butter can ever be got.
The development of democracy also works on the same principle of the primary and the secondary. If one man is the primary one, the others become secondary and follow him. If anybody else comes ahead, then the one who has been in front moves back. This is the ideal situation. When a hundred people want to occupy the same chair, democracy becomes helpless.
A significant sutra or rule of anekanta is that one will be pre-dominant while all the rest will be secondary. It is on this basis that relativity has developed. The one who is important will move ahead with reference to the others. They can never progress independently or in the absolute. They are connected to the leader and the leader keeps them connected to him. Nobody can be independent in the sense of the absolute.
In a Sangha, a religious community, one man becomes the Acharya, the others remain his disciples.
Anekanta: The Third Eye
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