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Jamali's mird put out its tentacles to grasp the motive and purport of Gautam Finding it enigmatic he forewent to speak
The Lord addressed himself to Jamalı, 'Jamalı! There are disciples in my fold who are not enlightened and still can solve these questions And never do they vainly claim to be enlightened like you
'Jamalı! The universe is perennial There never was a time when it was not Nor is it so that it does not exist now And there shall never be a time when the universe will not exist Hence I call it everlasting
"However, the universe passes through various phases and hence, Jamali! I call it striated with limiting phases
'Jamalı There never was a time, nor is, nor shall be when the individual self is bereft of it's existence Hence | pronounce the individual self to be perennial
'However, Jamalı, the self is sometimes a man, at other times lower animal or god or internal being As the self admit of evolutionary specific changes, I call it limited in span
'Jamalı! You are ignorant of logic and hence it is beyond you to specify whether the universe and the self are perennial or limited in span
'Jamalı! You are ignorant of logic and hence you are confused regarding the action on the verge of being done
'Listen to the twin doctrines of logic I enunciate 1 Absolute perspective 2 Relative perspective
'I have propounded the doctrine of action in progress from an absolute perspective From this stance the time of occurrence and its conclusion coincide Each action must accomplish something If nothing be accomplished during the process how would it be accomplished when the action is completed? If the first fibre of the fabric is not a fabric how can its last fibre be a fabric? When the last fibre is made one says that the fabric is made it is common parlance, a relative view From an absolute angle of vision the fabric
