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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Religion & Science are Complementary
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Religion is utmost essential for life but there should be no place for blind faith in religion. Religion had made its beginning on the basis of absolute right faith in the existence of soul, having deep foundation based on natural facts and truths. But the modern science had for its foundation the natural facts discovered through chemistry and physics out of various types of Atoms, the material substances which appear as miracles to the modern world.
No doubt, science has increased our physical and uplifted living standard but it has forgotten to tell us about our ultimate end or goal. Science had started in the quest of truth but it deviated from its right path and got in itself lost into the thick forest containing wild and ferocious beasts of endless series of desires. Science has so much entangled people into intricacies, that they are unable to understand the real necessities.
Our ultimate end cannot be understood through experiments, but its depth can be seen in man's common experience, as under:
(a) No one desires to die. (b) Everybody has thirst for love and knowledge. (c) Even the smallest living being aspires for superiority. (d) Everybody is restless to seek comfort.
(e) Man is not satisfied in himself, he has not found bliss even through the aids of thousands of techniques of science.
Today America, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and Japan have achieved wonderful success in the sphere of science but they are unable to solve the essential problems of human behaviour.
Science has scattered so wide, it has become a sphere of blind faith. Every new experiment changes the modern angle of vision. From the time of the enunciation of Dalton's Atomic Theory to the time the “Theory of Relativity” enunciated by Einstein, there have been a number of other theories which every time having created a new way of thinking, made man so dissatisfied that it has become rather impossible to arrive at the ultimate inference.
Science, no doubt, can afford correct explanation and logical