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lism and aggresiveness in thought1, because peace demands a revolutionary desire, a new simplicity, a new asceticism. Blavatsky thinks that when the one party or another thinks himself the sole possessor of absolute truth, it becomes only natural that he should think his neighbours absolutely in the clutches of Error or the Devil.3 These are obvious psychological roots of tensions4 proved by recent Psychological researches,5 Today one man or one country fight with the other because their views vary. Views are bound to differ, because we are guided by different condition, thought, modes and attitudes. Hence it is wrong to think oneself right and rest others wrong. 6 Here we find that Syadvada represents the highest form of Catholicism coupled wonderfully with extreme conservatism, a most genuine and yet highly dignified compromise better than which I cannot imagine.? Extreme toleration is that all views as possibilities are equally ( alternatively ) valid and extreme conservatism, in that form the point of actuality (or existence, as the existentialist term it ) only one of the definite categories is mine. I cannot always fly in the air of possibilities (or demands ). I must have moorings in some one definite form of actuality. 8
1. C. P. Ramswamy Ayer : Silver Jubilee Vol. II, Message. 2. S. Radhakrishnan : Quoted by Ramasury, Ibid. 3. H. P. Blavatsky : The Secret Doctrine. 4. Alva Mydral : Gandhian Seminar. 5. (a) Tension Affecting International Understanding,
Klinberg (b) Tensions that cause war, Can tril. (c) Democray in a world of tensions, Make on.
(d) Ends and Means, Huxley ( war). 6. Nemicandra Šāstri: Viswa-śānti or Jaina Dharma ( Hindi ). 7. Kalidas Bhattacharya ; His letter to me. 8. Ibid.
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