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CHAPTER XI.
THE DOCTRINE OF UNITY IN DIFFERENCE.
The dialectic reasoning leads to the Theory of Bhedabhed i.e. of Unity in difference - Distinction presupposes Unity-The world system is an expression of thought - The Jain conception of the Absolute distinguished from the Absolute beyond the relative of the
Vedantins.
The law of
tion
is
the
tity.
Now what has been discussed in the preceeding pages on Syadvåd, it is quite contradice apparent that the law of contradiction is the negation
aspect of the negative aspect of the law of identity. We have law of idenseen that with the Jains, everything implies 'something' opposed to it. This' implies 'that', 'here' implies there', 'now' implies •then'. The trend of the argument is that everything is real only in relation to and distinction from every other thing. This being so, the law of contradiction is not virtually denied absolutely. What the Jain philosophers want us to understand is this that absolute distinction which the ordinary interpretation presupposes is not a correct view of things. Rather it is to be borne in mind that distinction presupposes a unity of which, the Jiva and Ajiva and the like that
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