Book Title: Atma Shatakam Or Nirvan Shatakam
Author(s): Shankaracharya
Publisher: B L Institute

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________________ 7. It is not possible to prove anything with definitiveness, against this proposition of (a substance as being both Nitya and Anitya), hence these differing qualities in the same thing are not anything wrong! It is not that in dirferent coloured things you see & mixture of varied colours?. The intelligent Buddhists themselves believe that the shape etc. of any one thing is made from various shapes, etc. of many things - so how car the Buddhists argue and try and breads the Anehantvada (indisdaia - the belief in Jainism that a substance is Nitza as well as Anitya). Explanations The Buddhists believe all substances as being knowledge. They say that when anything is rerlected in a mirror, it looks like the thing reflecting. llance 'knowledge, and its 'reflection' (1.e. that which 18 to be known (2) ) become one. Here they accept that differing qualities are possible in one thing - this is Anekantavada . So how can the Buddhists who accept Anekantwada as shown above ever try and argue against and destroy it?. In a picture made of different colours though one thing 1s seen in many ways by Maiyayiñas, Vaisheshihas..... so they also carrot argue against and try and destroy Anekantvada (Sihatisztalia ). Explanation: The Valyeyi has and the Valsheshinag consider the knowledge of a multi-coloured picture as one knowledge

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