Beyond Doubt

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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A follower of Anekantavada is very correct in his approach because he uses the power of discrimination aptly. No one can be harmed and be unhappy by his solutions to problems. Once a king dreamt that all his teeth had fallen. Early morning he called the astrologers and told them about his dream. One astrologer said, "All your relatives will die before your eyes". The King was quite sad and depressed by the prediction. At that very moment another astrologer said "Your Highness, the dream says that your age seems to be longer than all your relatives' age". The King was very pleased and satisfied by the answer and rewarded the latter. Both the astrologers predicted the same truth but their approach was different.
In a village there lived a Brahmin called Dandabharathi, He was little educated and was considered a scholar by the ordinary people of the village. He had defeated many people in religious arguments.
He asked only one question which everyone failed to answer and for this reason he remained uparallelled. He demanded the meaning of 'KHAVVA, KHAIYA, KHAIYA". When the competitors failed to explain the meaning of those words he would snatch everything from them.
One particular scholar heard about this so called scholar and came forward to debate with him. The villages were the witnesses and judges to the debate and the bet between the two scholars was that who ever lost in the debate will give up his possessions. Dandabharati and his competitor, Lathbharati got ready for the debate. Lathbharati asked him to condemn the fact that the Vedas are four. Dandabharati who was only a scholar in name began the arguement as follows."Along with a man in his house there live with him, his wife and children, so also the Vedas are four and have four wives and four children. Hence in all there are twelve Vedas, I have refuted your statement and now it is your
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