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THE DOCTRINE OF SYADVAD. proper sense of the term, if there be any vison we may call spiritual and far from being nawe realistic, it is undoubtedly this notion of ours in which all antagonistic and contradictory elements are reconciled and find repose in a higher universality which includes them all and yet is not aggregate of them, which explains all and yet does not merge in them This is what the Syádvád or the Doctrine of the Assertion of Possibilities explains and emphasises
SAPTABHANGI FORMS
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Saptabhang
With these preliminary remarks we come straight to our subject-matter to be more definite to the Saptabhangi or Forms the Heptagonic forms of our ontological enquiry We have mentioned before that Saptabhangi is the method which supersedes all other methods of cognition in matters of apprehension of the spiritual realities by virtue of its universal and synthetic character of vision. Now we shall try to explain how by the help of this heptagonic vision, Saptabhangi Naya we get, as it were, into the real coherence and harmony which permeate through the world
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