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अनेकान्त 66/1 जनवरी-मार्च 2013
Acarya Mahaprajna also quoted a living example to prove the arpitanarpita of the anekanta philosophy. In our daily routine we experience that when we walk, if the left foot is in front automatically the right will be behind, by this constant process of the two legs one going forward and one going backward actually motion occurs. If a person tries to keep both his legs in front, then it is obvious he will fall down. So the practical application of anekant even in motion can be observed in each step of our life.4 Knowledge Based On Sapatio Temporal Is Relative
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All knowledge of a thing at particular spatio-temporal locus is conditional and relative to the circumstance.5 Radhakrishnan6 translate syadvada as the theory of relativity. Moreover he says. "the theory relativity cannot be logically sustained without the hypothesis of an absolute. The fact that we are conscious of our relativity means that we have to reach out to a fuller conception. It is from that higher absolute point of view that the lower relative ones can be explained.
The founder to the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein explained his relativity through an interesting story. Mrs. Einstein didn't understand her husbands theories. One day she asked, "What shall I say is relativity". The thinker replied with an unexpected parable. " parable, "When a man talks to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems to him only a minute but let him sit on a hot stove for only a minute and it is longer than an hour, that is relativity."
Anything bound by time and space cannot be independent. Both are connected to our events. This is so because no event can be explained without time and space. We take the help of these two (specs) measures and explain events. Something we have to refer to the place and sometimes to the same. Where to go; Right or left. Which is right and which is left using any point as the reference we can identify left or right. Otherwise there can be no left or right. Now it is 3.30 in the afternoon in Ladnun. Is it same time in Moscow too, No it is daylight there. Day and night cannot be identified without the concept of relativity.
In this context it is relevant to say that there is misconception regarding anekant theory that is expresses only relative truth and there is nothing like an absolute truth in Jain philosophy. To this Acarya mahaprajna replied in his text Jain Darsana Aur Anekanta," the existence of basic five substance are absolute (nirpeksa).7 Moreover he says bereft of absolute how relative truth can exist. This question was raised against anekanta is also anekantic.8 So C.D. Sharma in his book 'A Critical Survey
