Ethnicity and Religious Heritage

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

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Anekantvad and Its Importance in Life Part-I!
by entrusting the problem to the arbitation of Shri Anandshankar Dhruv who decided in favour of labour by awarding the increase of 35 p.c. as proposed by Gandhiji.
The whole approach of Gandhiji for this conflict resolution was purely multi-dimensional. The same approach was adopted by him in Kheda Satyagraha against Government and in Champaran against the indigo factory owners. All these cases prove that Anekant approach and technique, if properly applied, are capable of resolving most of the social conflicts making socio-economic progress smooth.
What applies to group conflicts applies with equal force to the individual and personal conflicts also.
Ontological Justification of Anekant.
This Jain doctrineof Anekantvad can be best utilized for developing relaistic art of living and solving our day to day problems According to Jain'sm basis of spiritual development is the docterine of "Ratnatrayi'i.e. Samyak Darshan (instinctive