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Colour: The Wonderful Charecterisitc Of Sound
shows the condition of the next moment. The portion which has a larger number of air particles i.e. greater density of medium, is called a crest of the wave or condensation. The portion which has a less/low density of of medium, is called a trough of the wave or rarefaction. This description propagation of sound shows that sound is in the form of particles. Jain scriptures also show this method of propagation of sound. The only difference is that the particles of medium are replaced there by constituent paramāņu-units of Bhāṣā Vargaṇā.
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The ancient Jain philosophical literature2 and the science of mysticism3 accept sound only in the form of particles. They also show its colours. In the modern western literature there is a mention/reference that two or three western scientists have seen colours of sound. People like Śri Ashok Kumar Dutt who have a natural gift of this sort of extrasensory perception, even today, are able to see the colours of sound."
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The Jain philosophy believes that sound is produced by paramāņu-units of a matter i.e. Bhāṣā Vargaṇā. Every characteristic of an atom i.e. paramāņu is, therefore, present in sound in a subtle form. The Tattvärtha Sutra which is acceptable to all sects of Jains, clearly states that as a pudgala (matter) has colour, smell, taste and touch, so its smallest indivisible part called atom i.e. paramāņu also has colour, smell, taste and touch. Therefore as a man with extrasensory perception can see that colour of sound, so other people, having different type of extrasensory power, can perhaps experience taste and smell. Everyone experiences the touch of sound. The tap-recorder, the gramophone record etc. are useful only because sound can be picked by these instruments very clearly, we do experience the touch of a very big sound. It is, therefore, not necessary to elaborate on this.
The ancient Jain tradition shows that some distinguished ascetics
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