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pertaining to creation, Gautama asked again, “Sire! What is truth?”
Replied Mahavira, “To be destroyed is the truth.”
Once again the mind was filled with doubt. Creation is the truth and destruction is also the truth? To be created and to be destroyed, to be born and to die...what kind of meanings are these? Once born and then dead, what else is left? The answer was still unclear.
He asked yet again, “Sire, What is truth?” Bhagvan answered, “To be eternal is the truth.”
Gautama's mind now focused itself. To be created, destroyed and to remain in existence this is the three-fold truth. Creation, destruction and existence, make truth. Truth is the conflict between the eternal and the impermanent. Just as man and woman make a pair, eternity and impermanence make a pair in nature. There is no absolute permanence or absolute impermanence. The eternal and the impermanent are conflicting opposites. This is truth. In the world around us, if there had been only absolute permanence, then its nomenclature would not have been possible. How could it have been named? Since there is permanence that is why
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