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UNITY IN DIFFERENCE
Such being the Jain conception of the Absolute, the whole universe of things, we Everything
see, must needs
adere Care
15 different - and non
different at
time
vend
ment with our cognitions We are conscious the same of things as different and non-different at the same time They are non-different in their causal or universal aspect (
m imarजात्यामना चाभिन्नम) and different in so far as viewed as effects or particulars (काव्यात्मना. MH Tatia).
But some hold that cognition of things as such is impossible and remark that like Reply to the
entiques of light and darkness, the identity and the above difference can not co-exist in the same thing But we reply, the contradictoriness that exists between light and darkness is of two kinds One is of the nature of impossibility of co-existing in one and the other of the nature of co-existing but in different things But such contradictoriness is not perceived in the correct intrepretation of the true character of the relation in which the cause and the effect or the universal and the particular mutually sland together On the contrary we really perceive that the one and the same thing is possessed of
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