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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Multi-dimensional Application of Anekāntavāda
thinking about object, e.g., prediction of weather, evolution of the amount of energy in the explosion of an Atom Bomb, the distance between two planets etc. but if it attempts to explain human behaviour through its logical thinking the explanation is likely to be incorrect. Science is an effective means for the study of matter but not for the study of living beings, because the ultimate end can be determined only through the true preaching of all knowing lord-the omniscient. An exact science is that which gives an all-round satisfaction to all human beings. But the present discoveries of science, instead of providing extra happiness, have been found stimulating in people the desire for securing a number of means of comfort with the result the mutual love, affection, fellow feeling, spirit of co-operation, justice, desirable character and honesty are all replaced increasingly by violence, hatred, jealousy ill feeling, injustice and dishonesty.
Now people have begun to think in a new way about human life. Biology has led people's attention towards living cell and a number of germs but people have not yet completely understood about their nature. Zoology and Botany have studied the structure and properties of a large number of fauna and flora, but no one knows what to do with them. Many diseases and medicines to cure them have been discovered but number of diseases and deaths remain the same. Just as religion having become complex has landed into blind faith, in the like manner, science too, having become complex has plunged into blind faith and its incompleteness has been revealed.
The great scientist, Albert Einstein, at a symposium about science of Religion at Princton on May. 19, 1939 said, "Knowledge and Faith are the two inseparable companions in the universe. Knowledge is science and faith is Religion." In this age, people think that science is greater than religion, because it is systematically organised and it is taught in the schools, but, dear reader! mind that science is perhaps unable to tell anything about the aim of human life even after a long series of experiments.
The above discussion reveals that we should place our ultimate