Scientific Secrets of Jainism

SR No.: 001603
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 378
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Science, Religion, & Articles
File Size: 21 MB

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Light : Waves Or Particles ?
1. A living being takes paramāņu-units of Bhāṣā Vargaņā and releases those after converting them into words Bhāṣā. This is called Utpatti-Jāta.
2. If paramāņu-units of Bhāṣā Vargaņā released according to the abovementioned process collide with other paramāņu-units of Bhāṣā Vargaņā that are in a order or disorder of series around the source of sound and convert them into sound, this newly converted sound is called ParyavaJāta.
3. If paramāņu-units of Bhāṣā Vargaņā released according to UtpattiJāta process, collide with other paramāņu-units of Bhāṣā Varganā that are in a series around the source of sound and convert them into sound, these newly converted paramāņu-units of sound are called Antara-Jāta.
4. Whether they are in an order of series or in a disorder of series, some of the paramāņu-units of Bhāşā Vargaņā get converted into sound and then they enter the hole of the ear and affect the hearing centre in the mind. They are called Grahaņa Jāta.
These paramāņu-units, called Grahaņa Jāta have infinite space-points (pradēšas). (One pradēśa means the volume of space occupied by a single separate paramānu). They occupy space consisting of innumerable pradēšas. The life-span of these paramānu-units consists of countless SAMAYAS. In Jain philosophy SAMAYA is the extremely minute unit of time. Even though it seems impossible to calculate how many SAMAYAS make a second, Śri Nandlal Jain has calculated that one second contains approximately a minimum number of 10380 to 10500 SAMAYAS. These paramāņu-units have different types of colour, smell, touch and taste.
Paramāņu-units of sound that do not enter the ear, dissolve either in the original paramāņu-units of Bhāṣā Vargaņā or into other types of paramāņu-units.
The modern well established classical physics fully accepts the theory that sound is in the form of waves. But according to the logical viewpoint of Jain philosophy, sound is composed of particles.
The propagation, reflection, defraction, interference and other phenomena of sound being the subject matter of a separate research article, we do not discuss them here.