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Multi-dimensional Application of Anekantavada
Nigrahasthanas, Asādhanānga and Adesaobhavana for a vadī as well as prativādī.' This view of Jainas indicates that they are very particular to maintain religious harmony.
The theory of Anekantavāda
The Universe is a composite of groups consisting of adverse pairs like knowledge and ignorance, pleasure and sorrow, life and death and so on. Life depends on such adverse groups. All the groups have their own interests, which creates clashes and conflicts in thinking among themselves. Religion is supposed to pacify these clashes through coexistence on socialistic pattern of society. The co-existence cannot be remained without relativity.
The nature of reality: dynamic in character
Reality possesses infinite characters which cannot be perceived or known at once by any ordinary man. Different people think about different aspects of the same reality and therefore their partial findings are contradictory to one another. Hence, they indulge in debates claiming that each of them was completely true. The Jaina philosophers thought over this conflict and tried to reveal the whole truth. They established the theory of Non-absolutistic standpoint (Anekāntavāda) with its two wings, Nayavada and Syādvāda. Proper understanding of the co-existence of adverse groups through these principles rescues from conflicts. Mutual co-operation is the law of nature (Parasparopagrahojīvānām)2.
Things are visible and invisible as well. We stand by visible objects and accept them as they are sure but do not recognise their invisible characters. Until and unless one does not recognise both these characters as an object, he cannot reach to the truth and justice. None is absolutely similar or dissimilar, friend or enemy, good or bad, As a matter of fact, every entity hides in itself the innumerable possibilities. Coal can be converted into the state of diamond or coal is the first stage of diamond. This is the conception of Anekantavāda. It should be remembered here that impossibility of becoming is very rare. Rational cannot be irrational and irrational cannot be rational. Besides. It can be converted into anything. Man becomes desperate as he does not understand the theory of relativity. He forgets that the modes are not imperishable. They are to be changed. Sorrow can be converted into
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