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other communities and the divisions even among the branches of the same mother community. There can be no harmony, no reconciliation of contradictories in the reasoning mind of man. All that it may do is to arrive at a catholic accommodation, or a sympathetic tolerance. A unity or a synthesis will always elude its grasp. It is Anekānta drişti alone that can reconcile and unite. For, light, not logic is the yearning of the soul of man.
Triratna and Anekānta can be an inestimable dual gift of Jainism to modern humanity--not as doctrines or theories, but as glowing experiences of the soul. Triratna, practised with an unrelaxed will and an undeviating sincerity, with the goal of mokşa blazing before the inner eye, will turn a Jaina into a Jina, a conqueror of the animal in man. Released from all bondage, he will live in eternity, though housed in a mortal body, see with the eye of an unbarred knowledge, Kevala Jñana, of which Anekānta is a characteristic action, and act out of an infinite compassion for all creatures.
1 To tear down an old social structure without having the knowledge and the power to rear a better one in its place is to throw the society into chaos. and confusion.
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