________________
(7) Ma
YATEENDRASURI SMARAK GRANTH ality and every time he should examine the propri- (3) May be they are true from one angle of vision ety of the options, its rightness and wrongness as and may be, false from another angle of vision. it has occured to him. All the while he will remain
May be, the demands defy all solutions. alert about the influence, good or bad / adverse of
May be, the demands are just and and yet the option adopted. He will consider every option
difficult be met. from several angles of vision, including that of his onward march towards the highest goal. Cool
May be the demands are false and yet not thingking, is not possible. He will also consider the
conceding would create other problems. effects good and bad, of his mixing with people,
May be the demands are true or false and dehis influence on them and theirs on him. All the fying all the solutions. while he will keep present in his consciousness (8) Even if we take just these seven judgments that all are Jivas though as higher status or lower and proceed to find a solution, it would be posand that all can get qualified of their own free-will
sible, to arrive at truth beto rise to the highest state of Siddha, may be as a (a) A sincere attempt by all to understand and result of the struggle of hundreds of births. Uncon- accept the points of view and other considerations cerned and impersonal sympathy, compassion, etc.
concerned in the matter. will remain in his heart. Then he will grasp the real
(b) A spirit of give and take based on humanimeaning of unselfish spirit of non-hurting to ani
tarian grounds may be sought to be helpful. mals. A little sense of distinction constantly at work will help him to rise higher even here. This is the
(c) Mutual understanding and adjustments magic-like effect of Anekantavada and its grand
may be brought in. guiding principle of Saptabhangi.
(d) Respect for all and sincerity shall be at We may now take the case of the factory
work. workers who have given notice of strike and have
(e) All in their moments of calm and wisdom submitted a charter of demands. Some of the de- might combine to find a way out. mands (may be true, some may be false, some may
(1) Even the workers must realize the consebe exaggerted.) Some justitfied demands too 'may quences of extremism that they have to face. be' not possible to be met due to (a) the financial
This is the spirit of Anekantavada which has a stringency of the company, and (b) due to the diffi- corrolary in the seven fold judgment in application. culty in paying even the minimum dividend to the
Umeshmishra therefore rightly stresses the share-holders. Here, the workers will claim that all
point that their demands are just and the management might not be willing to pay more or sanction more ben
"When man is baffled by the problem that he efits to the workers; the share-holders desire to faces, he tries hard to probe into reality and try to have higher dividents. All have their own angles of examine and analyse its traits, its multi-facets and vision, interests and truth (which is not absolute) so many angles of vision. It is here that the spirit of . and these are based on certain other considera- Anekantavada and the seven-fold judgment come tions. Here truth and solution are to be sought. We to his rescue."31 can agree about the sevenfold judgement, though
The word 'syat' in the saptabhangi or there can be more facets, we can consider with an open mind and study the problem in all varied as
syadvada is significant it implies - pects and argue
(a) acceptance of many facets of truth; (1) May be the demands are true and just.
(b) acceptance of very great difficulty in arriving (2) May be the demands are false and unjust
at what might be called absolute truth, which
evades man for long. Invin c inioncamiondriomisionin 8 incromer concioncontamination individi
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
