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108 describe that your pencil five inches long is small or big. It can equally be predicated big as well as small. When compared with three inches long object the pencil is longer, but the same pencil is smaller when described from the view-point of the object which is six inches long. We feel that one thing cannot possess the quality of smallness and otherwise, but we can't help it. Our experience shows the hollowness of the onslaughts made upon this invincible philosophy of harmony and concord based upon the sound bed-rock of our experience. We should not try to reason against our experience. Fire is hot as is known from common experience, If somebody begins to argue that fire must be cold since its luster is like that of the moon, which is not hot; such jugglery does not serve the purpose of truth.
This point must be borne in mind that different predications are not made from one and the same point of viw. Truth perceived from different angles appears contradictory, but in reality those partial visons are complimentary. Professor Hajima Nakamura of Tokyo talking about the dilemma of East and West has made interesting observations, which show that truth is relative, “If East is East and West, is West; which is East and which is West ? India,which is East to the Americans has always been and will remain West to the Chinese and Japanese. Hiuen Tsang has entitled the diary of his Indian sojourn as the travel records in the West" (Amrit Bazar Patrika, Calcutta, 27-9-1966).
