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form on account of having adopted dogmatism (one sided view). Let us now apply the Quoddammodo (Syadvad) doctrine in this controversy.
In one aspect the experience of every blind man is true. Perhaps the elephant is like a wall but when viewed completely it is not. This is not uncertainty, but it is verily a clue to grasp the certainty. If all the blinds had not disputed, had they heard and understood one another, and then summed up the experiences of all and enduringly groped truth, would not that reality knock out? It would, therefore, for the blinds of these absolute dogmatizers, the doctrine of Quoddammodo or Syadvad is like that eyed person who after summing their experiences demonstrates the real truth.
Every substance form, relation or a thing has several aspects. If all its aspects are not known, its one sided knowledge mostly leads to delusion (wrong conviction, faith). Where there is inquisitiveness for truth, their one sided knowledge also moves to attain completion, but having taken recourse to one sided dogmatism that partial knowledge also takes the shape of wrong knowledge. Right angle of vision after assessing the various aspects, determines the complete form
Correctness of Self Experience:
In the course of knowledge and contemplation whatever is internally experienced may be perfectly true-it is not essential. The gravity or lightness of its partial truth depends on the corresponding development of the soul. But it is also correct that every true self-experience contains some grain of truth, provided its expression be fraud
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