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And we, the Jains, therefore, reject this disjunction altogether. From our point of view, all differences are differences of a Unity which is expressed in the differences One is One not apart from the Many, but One is in the Many. So Plurality must be taken as the self-expression of this unity-the Absolute. To conceive of the Absolute as the One is not to conceive the facts of experience as Illusion-Maya (1) Or, the Many is real in as much as the Many is galvanised into life by the One, because Many is the selfexpression of the One The absolute is a Unity but the Unity which is immanent in the Many The Many, in Jainism, do not ding one vanish in the luminosity of the One like clouds before the rising sun as taught in the philosophy of Vyasa and Vasistha rather the Many is vitalised by the One and is as real as every other facts of experience In Jainism, One is shown to come out of its own privacy as it were and appears Itself as the Many The Many vanishes in the One (Shankar) but the One presents itself to us as the Many (the Jains) The One reveals itself in the Many and the Many is the self
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