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3) Psychologically too, the human behaviour is a mix of male-female qualities.
Aggression and affection both coexist in all humans, albeit in different proportions. From Jain Karmavad view point, happiness-sorrow, auspicious-inauspicious, superior-inferior, longevity-fragility all types of conflicting karmas coexist. Their proportions vary from person to person, but their simultaneous presence is an undeniable fact.
Examples from Physics
Scientific investigations of micro world have so far revealed that the basic building blocks of the matter are quarks. Interestingly, these quarks are found in pairs of opposite spins. Even before this discovery, the co-existence of electron and proton, positively and negatively charged particles is a well established scientific fact. When Einstein described the properties of light, a startling fact was discovered that the light has dual nature of behaving as a particle and as a wave. Science could progress this far only after accepting the dualism of light. Properties of light have become central to the entire physics.
Properties of a magnet are very well known to us. Both north and south poles constitute a magnet. Even when broken into pieces, each piece keeps on exhibiting both poles in its magnetic force. Whatever we do, the two poles cannot be separated just as we cannot separate Siamese twins. If by some means, we are able to demagnetise a magnet, both poles disappear together. A magnet with single pole is impossibility.
Another excellent example from the field of physics is that of friction. One might think of an easy motion in the absence of friction, but the matter of fact is that the motion would have been impossible had there being no friction. Conclusion : : Life and universe is nothing but a delicate balance of opposing forces, conflicting particles, contrasting energies and divergent view points. No adjective, no verb exists in this entire world, which does not have an antonym. Without the pairing opposite the world will loose its meaning. Light will be rendered redundant in the absence of darkness.
It is in our hands to convert conflict into complement. This is the main teaching of Jainism. Freedom should be responsibly controlled. Mankind must realise that male-female, hot-cold, light-dark, ephemeral-immortal, etc. all are inevitable realities. When they form the basis of our existence, we too, must live in harmony and compromise rather than conflict.
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