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The Path of Arhat : A Religious Democracy
basic requirement of the practice of "Ahimsa'. Origin of all bloody war fought on the surface of this earth can be traced to the war of ideas and beliefs. Syadvada puts a healing touch at the root of human psyche. and tries to stop the war of beliefs which lead to the war of nerves and then to the war of bloodshed. It makes all absolutes in the field of thought quite irrelevant and naive, imparts maturity to the thought process and supplies flexibility and originality to human mind. If the man-kind will properly understand and adopt this doctrine of Syadvāda it will realize that real revolution was not the French or the Russian; the real revolution was the one which taught the man to develop his power of understanding from all possible aspects. Einstein's Theory
What Mahāvīra found by the process of intuition and reasoning, Einstein proved in his physical theory of Space and Time in the year 1905 A. D. Development of Optics and Electrodynamics led to the rejection of the concept of absolute time, absolute simultaneity and absolute space. If time and space are relative to other factors, everything that happens in time and space would naturally be relative to other factors. Therefore Einstein was convinced that there is causal interdependence of all processes in nature. As a result, the revelations made by him and other theories of Quantum Mechanics, the field of relativity was enlarged so as to take into consideration the fact that Reality is much dependent upon the subjective reaction of the individual who observes the event.
Jaina theory of relativity in the field of thoughts and metaphysics thus gets sufficient support from these scientific revelations in the field of physics Theocrates world over have tried to emphasize that the truth revealed to them is absolute, eter. nal and immutable. Theory of relativity as embodied in Syadvada or Anekantvåda is happily an exception to this. Lenin! unknowingly endorsed this theory when he said : "Human
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1. Collected Works of Lenin, Vol. 14, p. 135.
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