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Anekanta : Philosophy of co-existence
and we are interrelated". The balance in the universe can be explained on the basis of the above concept of interrelatedness.
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Co-existence
The third principle of Anekānta is co-existence. Anything or anybody existent must have their opposite - yat sat tat sapratipaksam. Without the opposite, naming is impossible and so is characterization. The animate and the inanimate are two extremes. Yet they co-exist. The body is inanimate : the soul is animate. They co-exist.
The permanent and the impermanent, the similar and the dissimilar, the identical and the different all these are mutually contradictory; yet they co-exist. They co-exist in an object. The permanent is not altogether separate from the impermanent, nor is the latter completely separate from the former.
The principle of co-existence is as much practical as it is philosophical. Though the terms system, individual, taste and viewpoint have different denotations even implying inherent opposition, the principle of co-existence applies to them too. Democracy and dictatorship, capitalism and communism are ideologically different political systems. But even they are no exception to co-existence. 'You or me' not 'you and me' is an instance of absolutism by which the problem gets compounded. The holiness of the world of religion has been destroyed by the view: "Only those have the right to survive
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