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answerable by anyone. Take for an instance, if we consider nothing will destroy in the world, which is contradictory to our regular experience. Seeds will remain as seeds it will never sprout, milk will remain as milk, it will not convert into curd or butter, living beings will remain in the same realm instead of transmigration etc. The entire theory of Jain karma will come to an end. No new production of all kinds of food-grains, different qualities of cloths will take place. There will be no amendments in armaments, business, technological advancements and no ups and downs in the rates of products in market, no change in the intake of food items , no change in the fashion of writing in Magazines, Newspapers and other new publications, no change in the fashion of dresses and hair style, life style, no change in the behavior and conduct of men and women, no change in law, no change in the syllabus of education, no change in government rules, and so forth. Thus unending life-oriented questions would arise which can't be answered in the absence of the acceptance of concept of change-cum-permanence. Moreover if we don't accept something permanent in midst of continuous change then following inconsistency in day-to-day life can occur. For instance, the production of honey goes on, in between many honey bees take birth and die, side by side, still production does not stop, it continues. Poems written on nature by writers like William Wordsworth, Rabindranath Tagore are were no more, new poets are emerging with the modern style of composing poems, still the tradition of poetry writing goes on and on.The literature work written by various writers in ancient period and in modern period is radically different. This can be
* Ācārya Mahāprajña. Anekānta Hein Tisrā Netra. Ladnun: Tulsi Adhyātma
Needam, 1982, p. 78.
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| SR No. | 006966 |
| Book Title | Applied Philosophy of Anekanta |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shashiprajna Samni |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati Institute |
| Publication Year | 2012 |
| Total Pages | 220 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 18 MB |