Ethnicity and Religious Heritage

Author(s): T U Mehta
Publisher: T U Mehta

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Indian Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
properly understood only by perceiving its various aspects. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan observes:- "Naya" is a stand point from which we make a statement about a thing. What is true from one standpoint may not be true from another. Particular aspects are never adequate to the whole reality. The realtive solutions are abstractions under which reality may be regarded, but do not give us a full and sufficient account of it. Jainism makes basic and fundamental principle that truth is relative to our stand point".
Anekant takes even contradictory aspects of reality into account and having thus considered the totality of all available aspects and realationships it evolves a synthesis, which is known as "Syadvad". The word "Syad" connotes a possibility. It is used to denote that a particularstatement or event is possible in view of particular circumstances and therefore to reject it in absolute terms without taking into account the circumstances giving rise to it would be wrong.
Thus "Nayavad" and "Syadvad" to gather form