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SANMATI-TARKA [ I. 15, 16 Among all the subsequent Nayas, there is not a single Naya which has for its province both the aspects of a thing viz. the general and the particular-in their entirety. The reason is that all these Nayas look at the different aspects of the thing or Reality viewed by the principal Nayas.
It is impossible to find a third Naya (in addition to the first two Nayas) which can describe the Reality in its entirety that is to say its general and particular nature, simultaneously. And even among the subdivisions of the two principal Nayas there is not a single Naya that can state the double aspect of a thing (viz. its general and particular aspect). The reason is obvious. Every subsequent Naya being a subdivision of one of the two principal Nayas naturally deals with the reality and looks at it from that very stand point which is taken by its principal Naya. The province of these minor Nayas is not outside the province of the principal Nayas. The minor Nayas only undertake a more subtle analysis than that nndertaken by the principal Nayas. Naturally therefore, they are incompetent to comprehend the double aspect (of the general and of the particular) of an Entity or Sat. 16
We cannot account for this worldly life, happiness and misery, bondage and liberation if we adhere exclusively to the stand
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