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connected to our events. This is so because no event can be explained without time and space. We take the help of these two measures and explain events. Without them the explanation is not possible. Sometimes we have to refer to the place and sometimes to the time. Where to go? Right or left? Which is right and which is left? Without place such explanations cannot be given. Using any point as the reference we can identify left or right. Otherwise there can be no left or right. Now it is 3.30 in the afternoon in Ladnun. Is it the same time in Moscow too now? Is it daylight there? Day and night cannot be identified without the concept of relativity. Without the idea of relativity, up and down cannot be identified. When the earth was thought of as flat then there emerged the idea of up and down. But now that we know that the earth is round, where does the idea of up or down make sense without the idea of relativity? Up, down, small, big, all these are relative terms. Small and big. Who is small and who is big? Nobody is. The measure is relative.
The teacher told the student, “Shorten the line drawn on the blackboard without erasing any part of it.” Now, how is it possible to make it short and
Anekanta: The Third Eye
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