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Truth is Multidimensional
is with form and the other is without form. The theory of abstract is an important theory of Jain philosophy. The four words are very important -transient and intransient, worldly and unworldly. The Jain philosophy is based on dualism. In the philosophy of non-dualism, those who are the believer of duality of consciousness (Chattanyadwait) accept that everything is born of consciousness. According to the school of nonsentientism, everything crops up from unconscious matter. Creation of- unconscious objects from conscious and of conscious from unconscious both remained undual. In such a state there is a third option of dualism wherein both sentient and non-sentient matter has independent existence. None has born from the other. In Jain philosophy ten rules have been propounded- one of them is that no sentient matter will ever be non-sentient and no non-sentient will be sentient. Both have independent existence. None will emerge from the other and will not dissolve into the other. The dualist have established that there are sentient and non-sentient matter both having independent existence. This dualistic approach has given rise to a question. If the body is insentient and the soul of the body is sentient then how it can be said that it has independent existence. In fact, both are intertwined. This question was subject of argument in the Indian philosophy and more so in the western philosophy.
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