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Co-existence and Relativity
Lord Mahavira enunciated the great principle of nonviolence Non-violence was the alpha and the omega of his pursuit of truth The spectrum of consciousness ranges along the entire span of non-violence. It thus becomes a powerful means of the expression of truth
Non-violence protrays good-will in the context of animal kingdom and relativity in the context of epistemology The Lord was an embodiment of intense love and good-will Even a tiger felt meek and kindly and a goat fearless in his vicinity Such unfriendly beasts would sit quietly near him
Co-existence plays a harmony of friendliness and community it embodies peace and tranquillity without a grain of discord
Disharmony is a creation of mind It is human mind that has shaped the chimera of differences Truth is an unending chain of dualities Truth-falsehood, lasting-transitory, similardissimilar, articulate-inarticulate and such other dualities are some of the innumerable covalents of this chain The coexistence of these dualities is the truth
The Lord propounded--Nothing is absolutely true, nor absolutely untrue The thing is a co-valent linking of the true and the untrue No truth is exclusively lasting nor exclusively transitory It presents a phenomenon of co-existence of the twin modes No entity is either lasting or transitory exclusively It is a combination of the lasting and the transitory
