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and been often contradictory."
History of all conflicts and confrontations in the world is the history of intolerance born out of ignorance. Difficulty with the man is his egocentric existence. If only the man become conscious of his own limitations, Anekanta or Syadvāda tries to make the man conscious of his limitation by pointing to his narrow vision and limited knowledge of the manifold aspects of things, and asks him not to be hasty in forming absolute judgements before examining various other aspects-both positive and negative. Obviously, much of the bloodshed, and much of tribulations of mankind would have been saved if the man had shown the wisdom of understanding the contrary view points.
Modern Science and Anekānt
Syadvāda means, accepting all possibilities. Modern scientists have given it to mean-possibility and have confirmed it through their researchs. Science has proved that the matter which apparently looks in a solid and stable state is in effect composed of ever in movement particles, in fact not only in movement, but ever changing also. Even the scientist of today does not claim to have unravelled all the mysteries of universe and matter. Albert Einstein has said that we can only know the relative truth-the absolute truth can be seen and known to only complete visionary. So we find that under both disciplines, scientific or philosophic, an average man is That is what Anekant not capable of knowing the absolute truth. teaches us that, even the apparently opposing facts can be the parts of the same truth.
TULSI-PRAJNA
What Mahavira" 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 considration 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 emphazise that the truth revealed to them is absolute, eternal and immutable.
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