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inter-relations of the two terms with which Indian Logic has ever to deal, God and man. Jainism was bold enough to occupy that end of the line which is conspicuous for bringing together the terms at the nearest points Indeed, Adwaitism is the school which avowedly achieves this most successfully. But its success is the result of annihilation of the one term for the benefit of the other, with the effect that the annihilation of the one leads to the evaporation of the other. Adwaitism thus destroys not only man to give advantage to God but practically the Adwait Brahma is its own Mahesh. As soon as it tries to establish absolute superiority where only a relative existence is possible, it cuts the tree under its feet and falls flat with what it fells. The God is empty, with all his essence centred in a mere, lifeless word. Where Adwaitism thus fails, Jainism removes the difficulty by making the seperation between God and man actual and yet retains the advantage of a theory that
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