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Our thought and life move between these two
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM
of objects constitute one world, and in opposition to the Object, all experiences of the Subject, all its thoughts and actions are merged in the unity of one Self All our life, all our conscious thought then moves between these two terms which are distinct from and even opposed to each other. Yet though thus set in antagonism which can never cease, because with its ceasing the whole nature of the both would be subverted, they are also essentially related, for neither of them could be conceived to exist without the other The consciousness of the one is, we might say, inseparably blended with the consciousness of its relation to the other. We know the object only as we bring it back to the unity of the Self and we know the Self only as we realise it in the Object.
And lastly these two ideas within the spheres of which our whole life of thought and activity is contained and from one to the other of which it is continually moving to and fro, point back to a third term which embraces them both and which in turn constitutes
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