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menal) standpoint. Perception therefore goes with Dravyāstika and knowledge goes with Paryāyāstika. 1.
How far one and the same thing appears different at the time of its perception and at the time of its knowledge is stated in the following verse :
दव्वढिओ वि होऊण दंसणे पज्जवढिओ होइ। उवसमियाईभावं पडुच्च णाणे उ विवरीय ॥२॥
At the time of perception i.e. from the Dravyāstika point of view the soul appears in its general aspect. But even then (i.e. at the time of perception) it is with its particular attributes also when its quality of Upasama is concerned.
Exactly otherwise does the soul appear when viewed from Paryāyāstika point of view; but even then, though it seems to appear with its particular aspects only, it maintains at the same time its general character also.
The soul or for the matter of that, any other thing has always got double characteristic of general and particular. Now the question arises, if everything has this double aspect of general and particular, what difference is there
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