Jain Journal 2010 07

SR No.: 520279
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2010
Total Pages: 60
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL : VOL-XLV, NO. I-IV JULY.-JUNE 10-11
it and take a course, essentially on the line of syādavāda-anekāntavāda in order to make their theories understandable.
The attitude of considering every problem in the social, political, and religious domains either in a nation or in an individual - is sure to avoid conflicts and to lead to peaceful solutions. There is not a single field where anekāntavāda cannot be applicable. So, anekāntavāda is the best way of life. It is the supreme technique for management of quality of life.
For this reason, Dr. Satkari Mookherjee says, “anekānta affirms the possibility of diverse attributes in the unitary entity. Strictly speaking, a thing is neither an absolute unity nor split up into an irreconcilable plurality. It is both unity and plurality of aspects." Dayananda Bhargava rightly remarks that, “this wider outlook of anekānta” avoids quarrels, which lead to marital conflicts and confrontations.
Before we conclude it is good to survey how Indian tradition, from Ķgveda to Ramakrishna, have looked at this problem. The Rgveda has a well-known verse: 'It is called Indra, Mitra, Varuna and Agni, and also Garutman, the lovely-winged in heaven.
The real is one, though known by different names (ekam sadvipra vahudha vadanti) "5. The mystic Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836-1886), who had tried successively Hindu, Muslim and Christian symbols as means of sādhanā, compared in a parable the various religions to the ghāts around the same tank. The Muslims take water in one and call it 'pāni, while the Hindus taking water from another ghāt, call it 'jal', and the Christains use a third ghāt and take what they call ‘water'. Though names are different, it is the same water. Vivekananda spreads this doctrine of the equality of all religions. Religions are like various rivers all leading to the sea. He says: 'there never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist,