Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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Controversy had arisen and felt that those three frogs had fallen into that controversy because of their obstinacy of clinging to their respective points of view and that adharma had arisen in the name of dharma and that those three frogs had approached the problem fron the Ekanth or one-sided point of view. It said in a very serious manner, "All of you are absolutely right in your respective ways, but all of you are also wrong in your opinions". Then those three frogs asked the first one, "How can you speak thus, contradicting your own statement ?" Then the frog said, "This is Syadvad. The three of you are at the same time right and wrong. You have looked at the problem from your own respective points of view In the statement made by each one of you, there is a partial truth and if the three points of view are amalgamated the total truth can be realised. The Yogadarshan and the Adhyatma Darshan have compared the current of thoughts to a strean and so it is said that the mind is like a liquid always flowing. You feel that a stream of thoughts is always flowing through your mind. So you are right. The other two frogs are also right because the log of wood is moving and the water also is moving. All the three statements are true'. Those three Frogs said, "How can there be three truths ?". The old Frog said, ''I am not uttering a falsehood". The three frogs said, "He says that our controversy is wrong and that our opinions are wrong, He also says that our opinions are right How can we have a permanent friendship with such a fellow ?". The consequence of its having spoken the truth was that the three frogs united and pushed it into the floods.
Sometimes, we too fall into such a situation and we too make such a mistake. We assume that a partial truth is dharma, label it as dharma, fall into heated controversies and destroy the Anekanth view. We should not do so. A partial truth should not be taken to be the whole truth We think that we have a monopoly of truth and we do not
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