Anekanta

Q: Why did the Jain stream, filled with anekanta and syadvada, become loveless?

According to Osho, the Jain stream became loveless because, after ages of excess in the name of love and God, Mahavira corrected course toward meditation and austerity, placing love as the fruit, not the practice. Later generations clung to doctrine and zealously cut attachment, inadvertently discarding love; without walking to realization, love never manifested, so the tradition dried.

Anekanta

In the spirit of Osho's insights, the Jain tradition, having once overflowed with love, became arid as later generations, mistaking doctrine for depth, severed their ties to love itself, forgetting that true realization blooms from within, not from rigid austerity.

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Why did the Jain stream, filled with anekanta and syadvada, become loveless?

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"When love is seen merely as a doctrine to be followed rather than the ultimate fruit of realization, the heart becomes dry and loveless."

To avoid fake ‘love’ and God-talk, people leaned so hard into strict meditation that they threw out real love and, stuck in rules, never reached where true love naturally appears.

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