________________
The same
movement as revealed by the relation of reciprocity or mutual determina. tion.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. synthesis. But this notion of universality in particulars cannot be apprhended in this light unless we interprete it as a process involving perpetual affirmation and perpetual negation reconciled in continual re-affirmations.
This would appear quite obvious if we dialectical view the problem from another light
which will clearly reveal the unity of the univese which permeates through every object in it. The world is a complicate system including innumerable factors of manifold character working in it for a certain goal. Whether this goal would be attained at all at any point of time in future is not our present consideration and should not, therefore, occupy our thought. So much is certain that the world is a system of factors co-operating for the same end. Now every factor, therefore, must be determined by all the rest in such a way that without any of them, the world-end can hardly be realised. Having this in view all philosophers of every clime and age have pronounced unanimously that every thing which is real is rational i.e. having reason behind it and this is what we
114
