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not allowed to develop along this line?. So says Radhakrishnan, “it is only by stopping short at a half-way house that Jainism is able to set forth a pluralistic realism."9
Since these two substances are interdependent, the dualism must in its turn and finally be resolved in a monisms. Any way whether Jainism can be transmuted into Advaita or not it is certain that there are obvious Advaita trends in Jainism.
1. Mookerjee, S. : The Jaina Philosophy of Non-absolutism,
p. 302. 2. Radhakrishnan, S. : Indian Philosophy, p. 340. 3. Hiriyanna, M. : Outlines of Indian Philosophy, p. 172. 4. Datta, D. M. : His kipd letter to me on the subject.
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