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is truth: Truth is implicit in this world. Truth is manifested, truth is integrated to this world - saccam lokam missabhuyam. This is an extraordinary proposition, which ultimately takes us to one very basic proposition. I am not talking, at the moment, about anekānta as something of denominational label. Because in our ancient heritage we did not wear the denominational label which is become more fashionable now. This is the most extraordinary achievement that there was a reconciliation of root thought. Root thoughts are very difficult to reconcile because they stand, ostensibly, in different categories.
There is a beautiful book called Syādavādamañjarī. Syādvāda is another name given to anekinta. There are three names that we should be familiar with saptabhangi naya at the outset, as a matter of semantic. Anekāntavāda, syādvād and sometimes its called saptabhangi naya (the logic of seven propositions). In that Syādavādamañjari there is a very beautiful expression which I am sure would form the basis of reconciliation of advaita with dvaita through anekāntavāda. 'Eko bhāva sarvathā yena draștā, sarve bhāva sarvathā' tena draștā.....” He who knows one, he knows all, he who knows all knows one. This is the basic proposition, that you cannot know all unless you know one, you cannot know unity unless you know diversities. You cannot understand diversities unless you know the unity. This is where the reconciliation takes place very beautifully. There was an Acharya Amrita Chandra who expounded anekānta with a folk imagery-imaging of a seemingly common occurrence in our lives in the countryside at one time in every home and now remaining only in the romance of Lord Krishna. The imageries are very beautiful. The imagery is how the churning process takes place. The churning process h meaning, whether we look at the churning process in Vrindavan or the churning process which brought the amsta by churning the ocean. It says that the lady while churning puts one hand infront and other hand goes behind. By this constant process of the two hands one going forward and one going backward, there is the triumph of Anekinta. I ask myself why the triumph of anekÍnta? Because there is navanīta. That is which the cream of thought brought out through this churning process. Antena jayati anekintam. I made a slight variation in the original śloka for my purpose,
Thai Uşi Hari-HT, 2008
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