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UNITY IN DIFFERENCE.
is different
different at
time.
Such being the Jain conception of the Absolute, the whole universe of things, we Everything see, must needs be ordered in perfect agree- and nonment with our cognitions. We are conscious the same of things as different and non-different at the same time. They are non-different in their causal or universal aspect (Hitmaat जात्यात्मना चाभिन्नम्) and different in so far as viewed as effects or particulars (कायान्मना. व्यक्तात्मना च भिन्न).
But some hold that cognition of things as such is impossible and remark that like Reply to the
critiques of light and darkness, the identity and the above
vend. difference can not co-exist in the same thing. But we reply, the contradictoriness that exists between light and darkness is of two kinds. One is of the nature of impossibility of co-existing in one and the other of the nature of co-existing but in different things. But such contradictoriness is not perceived in the correct intrepretation of the true character of the relation in which the cause and the effect or the universal and the particular mutually stand together. On the contrary we really perceive that the one and the same thing is possessed of
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