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Because if the soul were wholly permanent no treatment would be needed, and if wholly momentary there would be no one to treat.
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Verses 3-6 describe the soul as knower and seer, bound to a body made by its own karma, the doer and enjoyer of its karma, the size of its body, and permanent yet changing through birth, old age and death. Verses 7-8 say only a physician whose doctrine holds this view can give treatment that brings happiness, because absolute permanence or absolute momentariness would rule treatment out; so the syādvāda (anekānta) view must be adopted. Verse 9 extends this to the person, disease, medicine and time, which are to be held valid only in a relative sense.
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- Chapter 7
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- T07
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