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sun. We are devoted to the Ganges. People go there, bathe in it and all the dirt of their body is washed into it. We stand afar and do not even touch the water, forget soiling it with our body dirt. As for the sun, nobody respects it as much as we do. Just as being separated from a loved one, man stops eating, we too stop eating once the sun sets. Can you not see how loved the sun is to us?" The king agreed.
Syaad is the royal pathway
Every statement is with reference to something. Absolute statements cannot exist. Anekanta shows us the way to understand this secret. It reduces attachments and aversions. The use of the word syaad is the royal pathway through which we can cross the most dangerous ravines. This is such a royal path that evens out the ups and downs along its way making travel easy. May we evaluate this great principle of relativity with the required importance and use it exhaustively in our great quest for the truth.
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