Anekantavada

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Sabha

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of a fruit-bearing mongo-tree and there is a fruitbearing mango-tree for the moment being.
(d) The fruit-bearing mango-tree as well as the idea of it, are unreal; it is the ultimate existence that underlies them which alone is the reality.
(e) I, AS & real substance, am absolutely devoid of any character; the consciousness of a fruit-bearing mango-tree is attached to this substance ab extra, though intimately. Similarly, the substance underlying the mango-tree is one absolutely devoid of any feature; the mode of fruitbearing is externally attached to this substance.
(f) The particular reality of a fruit-bearing mango-tree is there; a particular experience corresponding to this particular external reality is there; these particular facts, however, are incapable of being expressed in language, even in such words, as 'this mango-tree bears fruits.'
Each of the above statements is true in a certain senso; nay, there may sometimes be some usefulness in making any one of those statements in exclusion of the others. But no one of these statements is a complete and true representation of the actual tree under observation. A correct view of the experiential fact would be