Multidimensional Application of Anekantavada

SR No.: 014009
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sagarmal Jain, Shreeprakash Pandey, Bhagchandra Jain Bhaskar
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 552
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 9 MB

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Jaina Relativism (Anekāntavāda) and Theory of Relativity
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(e) Internal and external causality (1) Permanence-cum-impermanence of sounds
L.C. Jain'has mentioned about twenty such topics covered by Anekantavāda literature. However, they do not cover physical phenomena, where it could be applied such as:
(i) Dual nature of radiations and matter particles. (ii) Heliocentric and geocentric nature of universe.
(iii) Phenomena connected with static and fast moving observer, object and events.
(iv) Inter-relatedness of mind and matter.
(v) Variability of mass, length and time under static and fast moving conditions.
Many authors have described Anekāntavādamostly qualitatively with above characteristics. They have called it as highest reach of intuitive human mind, dynamic dialectics taking us deeper and deeper into exploration and comprehension of reality and as a guide and inspiration for fundamental studies in science and mathematics. Of course, it may not be mathematical but it is highly statistical and speculative. It is universally applicable and indispensable for ethical, spiritual and intellectual-cum-mental non-violence. It is not a rest house for absolute truth, but it leads us to absolute truth. It is a principle of 'Alsoism' rather than 'only-ism.'
However, Mahlenbeis has suggested it to be the logical background of statistical theory in a qualitative form. He maintains that sevenfold predications of Syâdvāda are necessary and sufficient to exhaust the possibilities of knowledge, as exemplified by him through tossing a coin. Kothario has also supported him and has gone still further to show that Syädvāda mode of sevenfold predication may be illustrated through the superposition principle of quantum mechanics by the example of an atomic particle in a box with two compartments. We need not go into details of the representation. However, the interested readers are referred to KCS Fel. Vel. Rewa, 1980 p.368. Haldane has also realised the importance of Syādvāda by stating that any logical system allowing conclusion intermediate between certainty and uncertainty should interest scientists.