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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અનેકાંતવાદ, ચીવ પૃષ્ઠ ૧૧૮૦ પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન ૦ અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક ૯ માર્ચ ૨૦૧૫ hવાદ, ચાટ્વાદ અને
અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકન્તિવાદ, સ્યાદ્વવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકન્તિવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિરોષક ક અનેકાન્તર્વાદ,
Why cannot the father come and protect his wife and Acceptance first of Karmic debts. ē make the jewellery for all?
Acceptance then that Nothing in this world is absolute Why can't the sons who are doing so well for and only - there are different perspectives and one themselves not buy for their wives and protect their has to be able to respect the others perspective, even mom?
if you are unable to understand or relate to it at times. ē Why cannot the two wives see how the mother in How Liberating would it feel when we in our core belief
law's life has panned and ease out on judging her? system really believe that NO ONE or nothing else Why cannot the third son be the hero and say "Mal is to blame that it's just a matter of each one's don't want anything, since anyway I am single, just individual perspective. give away all.
How beautiful is this concept. The fundamental core So what is my point?
of Jainism is Ahimsa - non violence. When we are In this above glimpse of 'Ghar Ghar ki kahani'. we able to see the other's perspective for what it is and 5 can see that all of us live between idealism,
not what it is in comparison to our perspective. pragmaticness and our own desires, sanskars and
Comparison leads to conflict and acceptance leads karmic debts.
to co-existence. We see the world only through our eyes and our
Anekantvad then to me means Forgiveness. expectations and never from anyone else.
Forgiveness that naturally stems from Acceptance, Idealistically we would want to give the world to our that is a natural by product of Acceptance. husbands, sons, parents, friends, loved ones and yet
Forgiveness first of the self because birth itself means realistically when it comes to it we might be unable
that it accumulated the karma in previous lives and to give that one pair of earrings which a sister in law
still hung on to the illusion that happiness can be from has also been coveting for.
the outside and forgiveness thus then of all others As I experienced life and people, I saw that this
whom you have thought could give you pleasure or concept of Anekantvad was only possible to
pain because they can't. experience when we were not directly involved, when Anekantvad thus also means Non Judgement. up we were these outsiders of human dramas unfolding, Non Judgement because there is nothing like 'bad'
when we were not in the battlefield, but were mere or 'evil' to judge - within another or self.'Not judging 2 observers.
anything as 'bad' implies also not judging In the above story saw myself being judamental anything as 'good'! also. Because when you judge and taking sides as to why was the mother in law
something as good it instantly also implies existence being weak, and why the daughters in law so needyOT
of a bad. It's just that our negative judgment is only and the sons greedy - and all inherantly wonderful
hidden. people. so even though I saw 'all' the points of view, How can we sit in the chair of a judge? Our knowledge E I was still not calm enough to be non judgmental and and perspective is so limited that we are unable to
see the point of views as they existed from each even sit in the chair of another person - to slip in his person's perspective. Each of them had their shoes and see his point. perspective and no one was right or wrong. Each Non-judgment propels us into that state called bliss - one has their layer of past karma and sanskars which is not that state which is good and joyous' but blended with the factors of this birth and were seeing a state that is beyond the opposites of duality... and reacting due to it.
beyond good or bad... beyond painful or So for me Anekantvad in its broadest meaning pleasurable... into the neutrality of all is as it is. means many things - To begin with - Acceptance. Anekantvad then to me means Surrender. 2 Acceptance of duality. Acceptance of people, Surrender not of resignation and giving up but of arms
events, situations, things, religions, code of conducts, outstretched, head held high to any and all situations as they are without the layer of good or bad or right
[ Continued on Page 121] or wrong. અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદુર્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વીદ અને વયવીદ વિશેષાંક ક અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદુર્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક F અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદુર્વાદ અને
અનેકન્તિવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક ક અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકન્તિવાદ, અને
it is
અનેકીત્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્વવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક