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Theory of relativity as embodied in Syadvada or Anekantavada is happily an exception to this. Lenin' unknowingly endorsed this theory when he said : "Human though by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of sum total of relative truths. Each step in the development of science adds new grains of absolute truth, but the limits of the truth of each scientific proposition are relative, now expanding, now shrinking with the growth of knowledge." If only Lenin knew how to apply this principle in the evolution of social and economic theories propounded by Marx, the fate of socialism would have been quito different today.
Anekānta and Abiṁsā
More important aspect of Syādvāda is, however, the subtlety with which it introduces the practice of Ahiņsā (non-violence) even in the realm of thought. The moment one begins to consider the angle from which a contrary view-point is put forward, one begins to develop tolerance, which is the basic requirement of the practice of Ahirsa'. origin of all bloody war fought on the surface of this earth can be traced to the war of ideas and beliefs. Sayādvāda puts a healing ti uch at the root of human psyche and tries to stop the war of bloodshed. It makes all absolutes in the field of the thought quite irrelevant and naive, imparts maturity to the thought process and supplies flexibility and originality to human mind. If the mankind 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.
Application of Adekānt in family life
Family is an important upit in social set up. Anekant can be useful in sorting out family feuds. Its utility is in creating peacefull atmosphere between family to family and between the various members of same family. Usualy there are two centres of family dispute. Between father and son and between mother and daughter in-law, The underlying cause of dispute is the difference in view point. The father wants to mould his son's life in the value system he has been brought in, because he thinks that he has experience, where as the son has logic on his side. Similar is the condition between mother and daughter in law. In addition the daughter in law has the drag of the value system of her parental home excluded in her psyche. She also wants to live a life as free and without restraints, as she had In her parental home, against which her in law home expects certain
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