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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Such an approach lacks life and vitality. You will get a composite and comprehensive knowledge if you adopt the Anekantvad as your approach to reality. You will get a proper answer if you understand the various implications of a word or an utterance as seen from various points of view. If you adopt the Agekant point of view, there will arise in you such virtues as compassion, amity, love and neutrality. It is amity that helps us to realise and practise Dharma. Where there is amity, there abides the Paramatma. This is the result of a comprehensive vision, if we adopt that view, the samsar becomes imbued with Dharma.
Bhagwan Mahaveer said, "Truth is one ; but it is called by different names."
INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE ;
To-day our knowledge is incomplete. People ignore the knowledge of the soul and seek the knowledge of the externals only. They depend on borrowed knowledge. Their knowledge is comparabie, to water in a tank. If the tank is kept open, the water evaporates; and if it is closed, the water becomes foul.
The present-day knowledge is like water obtained from a small water-tank. It is borrowed knowledge but not acquired knowledge. If you use it for outward purposes like an examination, the tank becomes empty; and if you keep it in your mind, it rots and produces foul smell, and causes distortions. Those who think they are perfect are egoistic. Knowledge is boundless
in order to dig a well, deep-drilling is necessary. Only if you dig deep can you get at the threads of gold in the depths of the earth. Only if you carry out austere endeavours can you attain serenity; and those felicitous waters will give you satisfaction every day. The knowledge that lies in the depths of the soul is the knowledge of the inner self. That will give you deep satisfaction.
THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY :
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