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Anekantvad and Its Importance In Life Part-1
of the truth or reality which teaches us that all sentient beings and ideas of this universe are related to each other and hence every universal phenomenon is true from a particular view point and false from another view point. Revered saint Anandghanji refers to this principle in his Stavan on 14th Tirthankar as under: વચન નિરપેક્ષ વ્યવહાર જુઠો કહ્યો, વચન સાપેક્ષ વ્યવહાર સાચો .
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Meaning: "The conduct without any consideration of its relativity is considered wrong and only that conduct which is expressed after taking into account the relativity of its source/is considered correct." Scientific Justification of Relativity
What Lord Manavir found in the theory of Relativity, Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of modern era, proved in his theory of Space and Time in the year 1985 A.D. Development of optics and electrodynamics led to the rejection of the concept of absolute time, absolute simultaneity and absolute space. If time and space are relative
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