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would have been valid had we conceived thought as excluding will and feeling. Thought is not one thing, and feeling another thing. Will is not apart from thought. How are we to conceive of will if it is exclusive of thought ? . Again thought implies will. Dynamic thought is Will. When I identify myself Dynamic with the end, I am said to will. But I cannot will. do so unless I am conscious of the end. So activity. is impossible without thought. Thus our thought is not exclusive of will. With us thought is concrete, thought inclusive of feeling and will and is the constitutive principle of the universe.
Now therefore the Absolute is the ultimate unity of thought which expresses Absolute is itself as Jiva on the one side and correlative unity. of the subject as Ajiva on the other side. This unity is all inclusive unity which embraces everything that is real.
But this conception of the Absolute has to be distinguished from the absolute beyond Jain concepthe relative of the Vedântins. These philo- absolute as sophers hold that our intellect deals with ed from the the relative only. The world of experience 161
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