Book Title: Facets of Jain Philosophy Religion and Culture
Author(s): Shreechand Rampuriya, Ashwini Kumar, T M Dak, Anil Dutt Mishra
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
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The Syādvāda & World Peace 379 rationally possible. So we may style it as the “Confluence of Thoughts.'
Sevenfold Logic If we cling to Ekāntavāda (onesided absolutism) we only create fractions; but if we adhere to Anekantavāda we would be creating harmony and unity. This logic of Jainas has been developed in the sevenfold Syädvāda logic-the different forms of predicative judgment, regarding the same object and is as follows:1. Syad-asti: somehow a substance exists.
(Positive). somehow a substance does not exist.
(Negative). Syād-asti-nasti: somehow a substance exists and does not exist (Synthetical). Syad-avaktavyam: Somehow a substance is indescribable (i.e. it is impossible to describe a thing without adopting any particular standpoint or the thing is beyond sense perception). Syad-asti avaktavyam: somehow a substance exists but is indescribable. Syan nästi-avaktavyam: somehow a substance does not exist
and is indescribable. 7. Syād-asti nästi-avakravyam: somehow a substance exists
and does not exist and is indescribable. According to Syādväda logic everything is related with every other thing and this relation involves the emrgence of a rational quality. Relation is possible only if the terms are dependent on one another and dependence is always mutual. Thus Jain Logic is helpful in creating a cosmic outlook.
East and West
World is one from its very existence; but when we view it from the negative i.e. syānnāsti viewpoint we find it divided into East and West. Comparatively East and West though differ in outer aspects of culture etc., yet the basic spirit of the both is the self-same humanity. Third viewpoint synthesises them and the past history of East and West is a witness to this fact, because we find them both inter-related to each other since a hoary antiquity. But if we turn to consider this question according to the fourth viewpoint, we cannot demarcate the line of East
