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of Saptabhanga equisitively pronounced holistically the inquiry process related to kaivalya or vastu-svabhāva.
The sevenfold judgement pattern is as given belowSyādasti
May-be it is. Syānnāsti
May be it is not. Syādastināsti
May be it is and it is not. Syadavaktavya
May be indeterminate. Syānnāsti avaktavya May be is not is also not indeterminate. Syadastināsti avaktavya May be it is & it is not & is also indeterminate.
For avaktavya, terms ‘interminate' 'indescribable''inexplicable' ‘unfixed' etc. are used. Others who misunderstood the right meaning of 'syāt' equated it with 'shāyad'misnamed the theory as ‘aniscayavād'or
sandehavād'infact, 'syādvād' misnamed the theory as 'aniscayavād'or 'sandehavād' Infact, 'syādvād' is the only way out to cross safely the linguistic hurldes came up due to inability to express the experience in context.
Language as we know cannot appropriately/exhaustively express our ideas and experience in their entirety or completeness. During the process of expression much is left untold. For example, take any hue or colour, say red, and inquire honestly/scientifically whether there is any red colour? Indeed, there is no colour as such, there is a family of red colours. So it is very difficult to point out unitarily that this is red; because it may not be red, but may be whitish red, may be grayish red, may be blueish red, may be greenish red and so on, but be sure there is nothing like a pure red colour in the whole of universe. Besides percentages of various shades/nuances may also prove decisive. This way we must continue to be aware that doors of possibility are always opened. They cannot be shut even for fraction of a second. The same is true with the framework of tastes & shapes of letters in a scripte.g. 'sweetness' or the shape of the varna (letter) 'a' of Devanagari Script no nomenclature has been evolved so far which can name all the 'sweetnesses' and 'shapes of a' available in the world or awaiting possibility.
Linguistically this is impossibility. Really speaking this is a great challenge. The multiplicity of colour, tastes shapes etc cannot be pronounced exclusively. The only way to discover finality is possible by
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| SR No. | 524608 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2001 07 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 170 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 8 MB |