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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
Table turned a gainst m Shankar.
of nature and character in things all around us is contradicted by our sense perception which reveals but differences and diversities in things and realities.
And now to turn the table, when you,
Shankar, say 'Being is Brahman', You against must have to admit that when Brahman is
thought of in relation to what is other than Being, it is equal to Non-being (#). If you don't admit this, the Non-being of Brahman as what is other than the nature of Being itself, then your Brahman would be of the nature of Non-being, say of Ne-science or illusion as well. But this would lead to the deterioration of the true nature of your Brahma which is but existence pure and simple.
II. To the second objection that the cognition of a thing in its form of suchness and unsuchness results in the generation of indefinite knowledge which is no more a true source of knowledge than doubt is, we reply ;
That the seven predicaments as they are The seven in and by themselves i.e. so far as their own
four-fold nature (gjendal) is concerned,
Predicaments.
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