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THE DOCTRINE OF SYADVAD.
as well in essential and vital relationship To be more clear and precise, we may say that the true life of a being consists in selfabnegation or in ceasing to be So if in a sense we emphasise the fact that the jar IS a self-complete reality amidst various factors of the world possessing numerous attributes to act and react with, we can also with equal logic and 'emphasis state that it does not exist in the above sense, because for its existence, it has to depend upon what is not-ja to which it must oppose itself to preserve its so-called self-subsisting aspect Thus to sum up, we may say, the jar is a jar only in contradistinction with what is not-jar, expressing a vital relationship between the positive and negative character of it co-existing simultaneously in the same stroke of congnition of the thing in question and making way thereby for the thud form which is as follows.
FORM III
स्यादस्तोव स्यान्नास्तावेति क्रमेन सदंशासदश कल्पना विभजनेन तृतीयो भङ्गः as स्यात् अस्ति नास्तेव घट:May be, partly or 2n a certain sense
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Tom-Some how the thing exist s and does not exist as well
