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( 12 ) "May be the pot exists, does not exist and is indescribable' means that the pot exists owing to its material form, does not exist in regard to its changing phenomenal forms and is indescribable if both the points of views are assumed simultaneously.
Here the predominence of the point of view of indescribability is dominated by the existence and the inexistence of the pot...
The gist is that when the truth of a thing is to be ascertained, it should not be examined only from one point of view, and definite judgment pronounced concerning it. Every object has innumerable aspects which should all be taken into consideration. The Jains hold that every thing can be seen from seven points of view, every one of which is true but the whole truth lies in the combination of all these seven views. This declaration of judgment in regard to every thing, is a peculiar and unique method of the Jain dialectics.
Just as existence is applied to every thing, the terms eternal and non-eternal, one and manycan similarly be applied to it. The propositions will be the same with the change of these words.
