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identity-cum-difference or unity-cum-diversity. The rose flower is a mode of pudgalāstikāya (which is one of the ultimate substances) and so is the flower of dhaturā. At present, modes of both are different. In future, it is possible that the molecules which have taken the form of dhaturā flower may take the form of rose flower, and vice-versa. But, without showing the separation of molecules which have assumed the form of rose from those which have assumed the form of dhaturā, it would not be possible for us to identify objects – that is to say, the system of objects would become impossible. For a layman, rose and dhuturā are evidently different; for a person who knows the law of transformation, they are not absolutely different; both of them being the modifications of the molecules of matter (pudgala). But this modification may change also in future. From the point of view of eternity, we would like to say that as both the flowers are modifications of molecules, they are, identical. But from the point of view.of present, we cannot accept them as identical. Therefore, we should have the knowledge of both, the positive and the negative (i.e. what it is, and what it is not). The third alternative of 'unspeakable' in syādvāda is not the same as the inexpressibility of Brahma in the Vedanta philosophy. When we have the existence of the present mode, we have the non-existence of the future mode at the same
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