Prabuddha Jivan 2015 Year 63 Ank 01 to 03

SR No.: 526000
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanvant Shah
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh
Publication Year: 2015
Total Pages: 288
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Prabuddha Jivan, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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અર્થાતવીદ, ચીર્વાદ માર્ચ ૨૦૧૫ ૦ પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન છે અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક ૯ પ્રષ્ઠ ૧૧૭ માદ, સ્વાદુવાદ અને
THE SEEKER'S DIARY - ON ANEKANTVAD
અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને વયવાદ વિશેષક F અનેકીત્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક F અનેકાdવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને વયવીદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકન્તિવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિરોષક અનેકન્તિવાદ, સ્યાદવાદ
Since the last three months, I have been struggling In January, I was by sheer default made to be a to write on this vast subject of 'Anekantvad.' Sejal decision maker in a close friend's family feud. Default Ben, Dhanvant Bhai all have been exasperated and since I was made judge only because at that moment yet very patient quite unable to comprehend as to when tempers were running high I happened to be "why am I not giving this article on Anekantvad..? present there and I had extremely tender relationship They gave references, examples. explanations on with all the seven members. their attempts at inspiring me, to make me come out the subject was 'Fairness'. The object was 'jewellery
with my thoughts.. And I was just plain stuck. Perhaps and the problem was that all of them felt that they Z I felt that I was not qualified to write on a subject this had been short changed. Seven of them
deep, this vast, that no matter what I had understood, The mother was in a position of power as she was it was all intellectually and not experiential. I could technically the divider of this jewellery between her superficially explain it to those who were unfamiliar three sons. She was weak and not given to clarity 3 to it but Anekantvad was perhaps not yet a part of due to the overpowering men in her life. A strongly my DNA. It was not yet seeped inside me. The ability opinionated husband and powerful three sons. To ē to see 'anek'ant - Many ends or many perspectives make it brief, the story was that during the weddings
on the same subject to be able to see the other, or of her two sons in a brief spell of spiritual high, the another's point of view with absolute non judgement. men insisted on no jewelery. They had felt that they In brief; the concept - Anekantvad which is to see had enough. and accept another person's perspective and his point The mother made a slight noise about it, saying it of view and accept that as holding as true as your was not right 'vyavhar' not to make new jewellery for own perspective.
the weddings but was disregarded and condemned As we unfold this beautiful beautiful subject, please at her attachment to 'pudgal.' The wives were not know this article is not 'Taatvik' in the sense that given the jewellery at the right time.' A decade passed thinkers, masters, philosophers have spoken far more and prices went up. The age of materialism seeped eloquently on this - I am merely speaking it in a very in the innocence of youth and love and fresh air had Z personal tone and relating it to incidents of our daily been outgrown and the time had come to take stock lives.
and pass on to what was to the two wives and some Anadi Sanskar' (previous births karmic baggage) for the third son yet unmarried. Trends had changed. blended with the present birth's logic and environment suddenly what had seemed enough and a lot then combined with experiences and emotions and morals
was not so anymore. The division was not done fairly. - all this mixed together and despite these so many
The mother was pointed at and both the brothers felt layers to see the world from another's perspective,
that they had got the smaller pie. The bottom-line was the per through its endless, contradictory ways - how is it
there were seven people here who all were feeling even possible ?
miserable inspite of the exchange. What am I talking about? Will try and explain.
The mother because she was finally giving away all ē This writing about Anekantvad led me into a three
her 'stree dhan' to wives who were not satisfied with month journey into observing Reshma while she was
it anyway. with another person, while she was reacting to any
The wives because they all felt that they had got pleasant, unpleasant event, occurrence and most of
lesser or the less prettier piece and as an outsider all while opposite reactions were being addressed.
was listening to their seemingly petty discussion, in Let me take you with me through an incident as an
my mind judging all of them. example, and then thoughts from the very ordinary
Why could not the mother have been strong then to the profound.
and put her foot down?
અનેકાત્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્વવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક અનેકાત્તવાદસ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને વયવાદ વિશેષુક ક અનેકાત્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્વવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષક ૬ અનેકાન્તવાદ, ચાવીદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષંક ૬ અનેકન્તિવાદ, સ્યાદવાદ
અનેકાંતવાદ, ચાદ્દવીદ અને તેયવાદ વિશેષાંક ક અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક ¥ અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્દ
અને વયવાદ વિશેષાંક ર્ક અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને