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the view-point of potentiality. Therefore, in its Avyaktadaśā (latent stage) it does not serve our purpose. It is Asat from the view-point of "production" (Utpatti); from the view-point of "potentiality" it is always Sat. This explodes the rival theory that any cause can produce any effect as well as a man can have horns. A cause which has a latent power to produce a thing can do so when efforts are made to make it manifest. Thus the drawbacks which severally attach to every theory vanish when Anekānta view-point is applied to it. Any theory when it is not based upon Anekā ta-drști can never ensure perfect knowledge, in spite of its strength and on account of this very defect it cannot disentangle a man who has been entrapped into it. While Samanvaya ("Synthesis") is based upon a broader aspect and is able enough to free a man from narrow-mindedness.
According to Anekānta.drști, Effect Ghata is Bhinna (separate) from as well as Abhinna (identical) with the cause Earth. It is identical with the earth because earth has got a potentiality to produce a Ghata and Ghata, when it is produced, is not without the essence of earth. It is Bhinna (separate or different) because before its production as a Ghata there was merely earth and the Ghata was not manifest. The works to be carried out through Ghata were not there. 50–52.
Theories of causation? are Mithyā (false) if they are based on Ekānta view-point
1 See Śwet&swatara 1st Adhyżya and Sanmati Tika p. 710. n. 5.
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