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
insights. This dynamic vision is flexible, open and broadminded to change the visions according to the time, place and the situation. In dynamic vision there is no conflict since it accepts comfortably, without emotional resistance a disturbance, anything that exists or whatever is going on.
Vitarăgată is a state of mind which does not get disturbed under any circumstances which takes place externally or internally (Consciousness), because Vitarāgiis always adhered to realistic attitude. In this way tranquillity, detachment, equanimity, salvation, blissfulness, enlightenment and Anekantavāda are synonymous terms. 6. Counselling and Anekāntavāda
Counselling is a process of empathetic intervention.
In case of sympathy, man is carried away by the client's emotions and viewpoints, and the counsellor is trapped. He is unable to think independently and realistically to resolve client's problems and to change client's outlook towards the problematic issues. In case of empathy, the counsellor is capable to have a full consideration for the frame of mind of the client and is able to understand what disturbs him. But simultaneously he retains his independent and realistic outlook and is competent to discover alternative viewpoints to solve client's problems. Further, he does not interfere into client's thinking pattern by encroaching upon client's territory by giving direct advises or prescriptions. But he leads the communication process in such a way that the client breaks through his pattern of thinking and starts discovering a new outlook and thinking towards the problematic issue.
Counselling is a process of changing the outlook and the viewpoint of the client and making him dynamic in his mental attitude. Anekantavādais a process of developing the dynamic vision. All problems arise within the consciousness because of conflicts in consciousness. There are many voices within the person which are continuously debating and conflicting and creating noises within the person. This consciousness is mainly of three types: (1) Personal consciousness which has been conditioned by his painful
and pleasure experiences. (2) Social consciousness, which establishes what society, wants or what