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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
way ofthink
of knowledge so far as we are concerned ; because it has the characteristics of necessity i.e. the constituent elements of it are apprehended, not as isolated or independant terms or notions but as related to or flowing out of each other so that one being given, the others must necessarily follow and the whole body of knowledge constitutes one organised system. .
A penetrating insight into things will Ordinary make us sure of this existing unity among ing Ajivas. the factors of the world. To the unreflec
tive observer, the objects present themselves as separate individual realities quite simple in character. But this is not the case, for they are essentially complex. They are made up of parts which lie outside of one another in space; they do not remain absolutely the same through successive movements of time.
They are continually betraying the pheno. Ordinary menal changes when brought into relation -How can with other existences around them. How, seem to be then, can we think of them as individual
things inspite of the changes ? The answer often unhesitatingly forwarded by philosophers is that we can combine diversity with
Parplexities
the world
a unity?
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