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A Move For Reconciliation
Water and fire are inimical to each other by their very nature The two cannot exist together Fire is hot and water cold Cold extinguishes the heat Don't heat and cold bear some relation with each other? When water exterminates -fire how can one conceive a relationship between the two? But water and fire both constitute matter How can one kind of matter be totally unrelated with another kind ? It is reconciliation that paves the two problematic banks Lord Mahavira paved the heat with the cold According to him the hot is not only hot but cold as well Similarly, the cola is not cold but hot as well The hot and the cold are relatively so The heat that melts the butter is hot for the butter but not so for the iron It cannot melt with ordinary heat
All the ingredients of the universe are in some way related with one another Nothing is totally identical with another thing and nothing is totally different We deem certain things as similar and certain other things as dissimilar The cause does not bear relevance to the thing in itself? In fact, it originates from our point of view If we wish to detect similarity, we do so If we wish to detect differences we also do so Since both the observations are possible, we detect whichever of it we wish to
Similarity and dissimilarity are in the nature of a thing hence no realistic approach can be absolute and non-relative
