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The practice of nonviolence does not merely stop at the devotee's himself following the principles of nonviolence but it goes further in as much as, no violence shall be commissioned or consented to, by an honest devotee of nonviolence.
Having explained the principle of nonviolence we now turn to Anekantwad, i.e. Theory of Relativity.
Gunratna Suri, the commentator of a Jain work on "Comparative Philosophy" says:
"Although the various schools of philosophy, through sectarian bigotry, differ from and contradict one another, still there are certain aspects of truth in them which would harmonize if they were joined into an organic whole."
The age-old saying of a coin having two sides is well known to this congregation. Jainism, however, makes this as one of its basic principles. It requires that any object, situation or controversy should be looked at from all aspects.
If an individual, a community or a nation allows its vision to be narrowed by turning
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