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evil thoughts and to cultivate good thoughts. The importance of this comprehensive synthesis of 'Anekant' in day to day life is immense in as much as these doctrines supply a rational unification and synthesis of the manifold and rejects the assertions of bare absolutes. The moment one begins to consider the angle from which a contrary view-point is put forward, one begins to develop tolerance, which is the basic requirement of the practice of non-violence. Origin of all bloody war fought on the surface of this earth can be traced to the war of ideas and beliefs. 'Anekant' puts healing touch at the root of human psyche and tries to stop the war of bloodshed. It makes all absolutes in the field of the thought quite irrelevant and naive, imports maturity to the thought process and supplies flexibility and originality to human mind, which in return helps the individual, society nation to become conflict-free. And, only in this type of environment and atmospheare a person can use his potentiality to attain the supreme goal.
The term 'truth' has got varied implications. It is derived from 'sat? and 'sat' is more often understood in the sense of ultimate Reality. It is that which is never destroyed or destroyable. But some time 'sat' also means a general adjective goodness, virtue and chastity; beside this, it means genuine, honest, sincere and faithful etc. It is considered the true essense of the whole universe is even more profound than the ocean and more stable than Mt. Meru. This, as is apparent in the metaphysical truth and understood as highly important in the Jaina scriptures. As a moral principle also it is considered very significant.
Truth, it is said, does not only pertain to our faculty of speech but to mind and body as well. Only that truth in speech is called truth which is coherent with body and mind, as it is sometimes said that the origin of truth lies not in the mouth but in the heart. Truth, in the systems of Indian philosophy is one of the top ranking tenents of morality. Its validity and universality can be realized as a basic principle of life.
In the modern era, Gandhiji is one of the biggest exponents of truth. The remarkable thing about him is his application of truth, not only in his personal life, but in political life too with remarkable success, which is his unique contribution. The concept of 'satyagraha' is Gandhi's contribution to international politics, which means nothing but holding to or sticking to the principle of truth. About the results of this programme of 'satyagraha', which Gandhi applied against the untruthful regime of British, nothing is needed to be said as every thing is known. Today even, this application of the principle of truth has an extreme potentiality in itself. For the cultivation of which certain basic defects such as fear, selfishness greed and cowardice are needed to be checked.
The ethical principle of non-stealing is actually based on the first and foremost principle of non-violence. Whether stealing is understood in the
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| SR No. | 524610 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2002 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2002 |
| Total Pages | 122 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |