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possibilities developments take place.
Man gets into a problem when there is a single perspective. A man employed a servant and decided that he was very honest. He nurtured him and gave him all the conveniences. One day the servant cheated him and robbed him of five lakhs of rupees. Now the master got terribly upset. He got upset because his perspective was single dimensional. He did not consider the possibility that one day he could also cheat. It is good to act on the present conditions, but future possibilities should not be ruled out.
Two men got into business together. One of them gets entangled with the present only and rules out all future possibilities while the other keeps the door of possibilities open and progresses on that basis. The first person repents and wishes he too had followed the other man's example.
All of man's hard work, courage, progress, creativity and plans are based on possibilities. And these possibilities cannot emerge without the perspective of anekanta.
The three-dimensional vision
Anekanta is a very significant sutra for knowing
Acharya Mahaprajna
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