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Multi-dimensional Application of Anekāntavāda
within a particular space, substance, time and form, so both are not the same. Our conscious is guided by experience but logic or reason guides our intelligence. Experience is vast but logic is limited to comprehend
reality. Object possesses 1. Dravya (Substance) 2. Kșetra (Space) 3. Kāla (Time) 4. Bhāva (Essence) Existence may be defined in words mainly in the form of Asti
It exists Nāsti
It does not exists Avaktavya
It is indescribable Existence may have
Probabilities
Possibility 0 Approximation toward truth is better stand than ultimate truth.
Look for state of supreme bliss, peace and happiness for living beings. Blind faith, superstitions lifeless ritual, narrow mindedness is self
destructive. O Many connotations exist for the same term. o Wonder - another name of ignorance. o Ignorance is no defence. o Scientific approach is unbiased. o Search for true nature of self and non-self is spirituality. o Knowing object is knowing what it is and what it is not.
Knowing means identifying object as distinct from all objects of the universe. Reality exists as it is but no human being can know reality from all
its aspects. 0 Reality does not cease to exist because you do not see it.
Insight is process of seeing thing, which was not previously seen
due to mental block. O Block is within and not outside.
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