Source: TOI:
Experience it to know, says ACHARYA MAHAPRAJNA
Truth is eternal. The one who sees truth does not create it; he only explains it. Mahavira was not the founder of truth; he expressed it, he elaborated on it. With long years of penance, he was able to see truth and describe it within the limitations of language. He perceived that truth can be seen, but its entirety cannot be expressed. Explanations can be made of only one part of the truth. Knowledge is for oneself and expression of it for others.
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Mahavira and Buddha, Lao Tze and Confucius were contemporaries, differentiated in time and space. But truth cannot be so differentiated. It is in the same form at all times, at all places. But the one who reads Mahavira’s philosophy is trying to understand truth in a certain fashion, just as the one trying to understand Buddha’s teachings is perceiving it in another manner. Students of Lao Tze and Confucius understand truth in the third and fourth manner.