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Water : With Life And Without Life : A Scientific View-point
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जायइ सचित्तया से, गिम्हमि पहरपंचगस्सुवरिं। चउपहरोवरि सिसिरे, वासासु पुणो तिपहरुवरि ।।८८२।।
jāyai sacittayā sē, gimhammi paharapañcagassuvarim.
caupaharõvari sisirē, vāsāsu puņo tipahanuvari ..882.. And therefore, the water turned into drops from vapour in the kitchen is lifeless because it has not crossed the prescribed time limit, while the rainy water, after being transformed into water crosses the prescribed time limit. Scripturists say that the rainy water contains lives. Similarly, the distilled water produced in the laboratory, which doctors use for injections also contains life, though it is extremely pure.
Minute water drops that are produced by vapour present in the atmosphere and attached to the external surface of the vessel containing ice and such other things which are cooled in the refrigerator, are not acceptable to monks and nuns and laypersons who abstain from things that contain life, even though it is lifeless because for that water drops, ice which has life containing water bodies and things cooled in the refrigerator are mixed with it. No question, therefore, arises for accepting minute water drops produced through the contact of ice etc.
In the end, the question arises that as we make water lifeless, so we should also make air lifeless because according to Jain scriptures air also contains life. But this is not logical. Though water and air are very indispensable to human life, there is a tremendous difference between their forms. Therefore, if we apply to air whatever we apply to water, it will show our intellectual bankrupcy. Therefore, no solution is necessary here.
In short all monks and nuns and laypersons, moreover all persons who want to pass healthy life, have to use the thrice boiled water.
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THE PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE HERE ARE REALLY SERIOUS. WE WISH TO SPEAK IN SOME WAY ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATOMS ...... BUT WE CANNOT SPEAK ABOUT ATOMS IN ORDINARY LANGUAGE.
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