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The acceptance of anekanta: matter and mode
Anekanta has explained truth. There are two aspects of truth: substance and mode. In substance lies the root and the mode is additional. Without transformation, nothing can be named constant and without the constant nothing can be termed transformable. Transformation and the constant go hand in hand. One remains in the root and one in the flower. We see the flower not the root, which is underground. Sometimes a few people even try to uproot the root. They accept the changes and reject the root. There are yet others who accept only the root and totally reject the flower. This is a single dimensional view.
Anekanta accepts both. Both the root and the flower are valuable. Neither can be rejected.
Near the town there was a beautiful garden. A board there read, “Not allowed to pluck flowers.” A boy came along and wanted to uproot the plants. The gardener saw him and came running. "Hey! What are you doing? See what is written?” he asked the boy. The boy replied coolly, “Yes I read what was written. It does not allow you to pluck flowers so I am plucking the root.”
Acharya Mahaprajna
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