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-dimentional Reflections on Anekāntavāda
horizon of the people and to keep their mind open and to avert difference of opinions and conflicts. Anekāntavāda is a technique to widen mental horizon, to incorporate all opposite conflicting views to perceive reality. Anekāntavāda have dispassionate, scientific and objective-approach towards conflicting and opposite viewpoints and thereby establishes nonviolence (Ahimsa).
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Decoding Terminology
Words and language are symbolic representations of reality and they are not reality itself. Words represent objects under focus. Words are pictures or images of an object as it is seen and not accurately as it is. Words, on one side represent reality, and on the other way, words represent individual viewpoints towards the particular object. They are formed to convey substance or meaning. When we use words, they need to be de-codified into meaningful message. Words do not exist without meaning ascribed to them.
Human beings have the faculties to use words and language. It is believed that animal has not the faculty to understand language. When man thinks he thinks in form of words and language, he thinks according to his mental set up; so it is his own interpretation and expression. Different people have different mental set up, therefore, their interpretation and expression differ, even though they are expressing the same reality. Man believes that words themselves are reality. Man also believes that his perception, interpretation and expression are themselves real.
Reality can be divided into three phenomena as mentioned below: 1. Reality as it actually exists.
2. Words and meanings which represent reality.
3. Perception, interpretation and expression which grasp some specific aspects of reality.
Words are the basic elements of the language. Language cannot exist without words. Words are arranged into a sentence; in a meaningful way. A bunch of sentences is language. Language is used to make statements of opinions or viewpoints. In technical terms, a statement with a meaning having partial knowledge of an object is Naya (viewpoint) Any statement about the object covering some of its attributes is Naya.