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having regard to their various mental levels. - For that speaker is justified in stating one particular standpoint of one Naya only, with a view to lead them in the long run to all-comprehensive truth.
SANMATI-TARKA
It is true that according to Jaina view it is advisable to make statements presenting various aspects of a thing. Sometimes, however, it is permissible for a speaker to make statements presenting the view of one Naya only looking to the level of his audience. When a speaker following the Anekanta or many-sided view of logic thinks the audience before him of a mixed character, of different levels of culture, or when he sees that a particular man in his audience already accepts one of the two Nayas, he merely states the remaining Naya before him and tries to win him over to that Naya only. Sometimes therefore he is found to state the view of Paryāyāstika Naya before a man adhering to Dravyastika and to state the view of Dravyästika before a man adhering to Parva yastika for thus he hopes to supplement the onesided view of his hearer by stating the other view and thus to bring him nearer to all-comprehensive truth of things which is only possible for Anekanta the many-sided view of things. Such onesided statement of only one Naya made by the speaker deliberately has a place as an exception in Jaina philosophy. 54.
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