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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
is not. As in the previous form, we have described what it is so in this form we describe what it is not without loosing sight of the indescribable nature of the thing owing to our incapacity to give expression to both the positive and the negative aspects of it at the same moment. In what sense it does not exist, we need not discuss here, because we have done so at length in the Form II., which emphasises on the negative aspect of the thing. We have seen before that we can't say 'a thing exists' as a self-identical unit; because it has to depend upon other factors to maintain its existence and to which it bears relations which are essential for the preservation of its Own reality. So in this sense we may equally deny any self-existing character of anything without committing ourselves to any inconsistency in thought or language.
FORM VII.
The Seventh स्यादस्ते व स्यान्नास्तेावस्या दक्तव्यमेवेति क्रमात् सदंशासstands as a दंशप्राधान्य कल्पनया युगपद्विधिनिषेधा निर्वचनाय च्यपना
Form
synthesis of the Vand VI Forms.
कल्पना विभजया च सप्तमो भङ्गः as स्यादस्तोव नास्ताव अवक्तव्य । May be partly or in a certain sense
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