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the present is not good. With religion the heavens are improved, even if this world is not. This argument does not worry about the present. One cannot project a future that is not based on the present. One cannot look into the future by breaking away from the present. By breaking the sequence of the present a future order cannot be visualized. Action and results are both relative. They cannot be cut off from each other. How relative is the anekantic perspective! Then how can one say that anekanta complicates? Can any principle be explained without understanding anekanta or the principle of relativity? Can the true nature of substance or life be explained without it? Never. The whole life cycle, the entire course of life cannot be explained without anekanta.
A certain man was in need of money. Another man told him, “You give me both your legs and I will give you Rs. 5000.” The man plagued by poverty exclaimed, “What ! Give my legs? You want me to become lame? How can I go through the journey of life without legs? No I cannot give my legs.” How can we understand this decision? Is it objective (an absolute decision)? No, it is relative to emotion and
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