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Also, they take what is not given to them.
Further they give a variety of contradictory statements. For example (The Realists say-) The world has an objective existence. (The Idealists say-) In reality the world does not exist. (The Eternalists say-) The world is unchangeable. (Others say) The world is changeable. (Some say-) The world has a beginning. (The anti-Creationists say-) The world is without a beginning. (The Creationists say-) The world has an end. (The anti-Creationists say-) The world is endless. (Some philosophers say-) Righteousness exists. (Some philosophers say-) Unrighteousness exists. (Some philosophers say-) Kalyan (well being or merit, or virtue, exists. (Some philosophers say-) Sin or vice exists. (Some philosophers say-) True ascetic exists. (Some philosophers say-) Non-true ascetic exists. (Some philosophers say-) Nirvana exists. (Some philosophers say-) Nirvana does not exist. (Some philosophers say-) Hell exists. (Some philosophers say-) Hell does not exist.
They propagate their own religions through these mutually contradictory theories. Know this that all their doctrines are illogical and mutually contradictory.
Thus the religions of such absolutists are neither logically enunciated nor properly expounded.
मतिमान- माहन प्रवेदित धर्म
२०२. से जहेयं भगवया पवेइयं आसुपण्णेण जाणया पासया । अदुवा गुत्ती वइगोयरस्स ।
त्ति बेमि ।
२०३. सव्वत्थ सम्मयं पावं । तमेव उवाइकम्म एस महं विवेगे वियाहिए ।
गामे अदुवा रणे ? णेव गामे णेव रण्णे । धम्ममायाणह पवेइयं माहणेण मईमया । जामा तिणि उदाहिया जेसु इमे आरिया संबुज्झमाणा समुट्ठिया ।
जे णिव्या पावेहिं कस्मेहिं अणियाणा ते वियाहिया ।
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