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Multi-dimensional Application of Anekāntavāda:
In educational institutions also, training can be imparted to students in developing their mental attitude of help. The people belonging to new generation when come across a person who is in poverty, do not care for that person. This attitude can be corrected in children through proper training in schools. The process will be that one of the students will be asked to come empty handed to a class on a particular day. The other students and the teacher will be asked to help the student with books, pen, etc. Thus, the attitude of sharing, helping and learning will develop among students. This attitude is based entirely on the concept of anekânta vāda, that every student has equal right of acquiring education (knowledge), irrespective of the financial, social and other background of the student and irrespective of whether the student has all or non or some of the equipment required for learning. If the training of the above kind is imparted to students, their mental makeup will not vary much even in future. Thus, within a span of few years an entire generation will come up with a totally new thinking, i.e. all thinking alike but all thinking different. Everyone thinks alike of helping others but possessing a different idea on the way of helping, ekantism in anekantism.
Thus in the mental sphere, anekāntavāda can be applied in order to change the destiny of people. Conclusion:
To eradicate the inner conflicts, which are also reason of outer conflicts, it is necessary to apply anekāntavāda in our regular life. Application of anekānta begins from an individual. The change in individual should not be limited to the self, but it should also be in every outward field. It will be no use being an anekāntiif the seeds are not sown in mental and spiritual spheres.
Thus, the implication of the principle of anekāntavāda, can be observed in various fields of our life. If it is properly observed no problems in the world can remain unsolved.
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