Anekantavada

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Sabha

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bocome prey to Ekānta-väda, is incompetent to follow the detailed theories of Naya-vāda because of his lack of the requisite talent. Hence, only a student who is endowed with a special kind of intellect is regarded in Shri Nandi Sūtra, as a student deserving the knowledge of Naya-vāda. Unless one deserves the study of Syād-vāda, one is likely to form misconceptions about it.
Here it is necessary to remove certain misconceptions created in the name of Syād-vāda. Sone ancients regard the doctrine of Syād-vada as a doctrine of doubts. Some moderns call it a doctrine of reconciliation. Neither of these is correct.
Really speaking, the doctrine of Syād-vāda is not a doctrine of doubts but is a definitive doctrine, which eliminates all doubts. The Syād-vāda insists that a proposition is correct from the view point from which it can be substantiated. For instance, one, with the knowledge of Syād-vāda, definitely regards the soul as eternal from the angle of Dravya, and also definitely regards it as evanascent from the angle of Paryāya. He can never maintain that the soul is both eternal and evanascent either from the angle of Dravya alone or from the angle of Paryāya alone. Though he makes &