Saptbhanginaya

Author(s): Kannomal
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Pustak Pracharak Mandal

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ده
Indians or foreigners spontaneously springs up. The idea of virtue suggests the idea of vice ; the idea of justice that of injustice. Thus the knowledge of one thing unavoidably suggests the relative knowledge of other objects. This doctrine of pluralism has been elaborated to show that an object has various qualities or functions from the point of view of the relativity of knowledge. Lord Mahavir, keeping it in view, has said that a man who knows only one object with all its properties, knows all things. He may be said to be all-knowing
The Jain philosophy as real, unreal, and real and time. An object is real in time, place etc. and unreal in time, place etc., of other objects.
considers all objects unreal at the same view of its nature, view of the nature,
Man, from the point of view of the essential qualities of man, is real and from the point of view of qualities contrary to them, unreal. In this way a man is real and unreal, and real and unreal at the same time from the view point of this pluralistic argument. The word 'siat' (maybe) is used to denote the reality and unreality etc., of objects. It means 'somehow' 'maybe'