Cosmology Old and New

SR No.: 006547
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G R Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 232
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 12 MB

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COSMOLOGY: OLD AND NEW
ing physical measurement... In any case the physicist does not conceive of space as void. Where it is empty of all else there is still the aether."
The slight misconception expressed in the last sentence, viz., where it is empty of all else there is still the acther, has arisen out of the fact that although scientists have come to regard space as a reality and associate all necessary qualities with it and more but they have failed to regard it as a substance in itself. If the latter point is accepted it is quite easy to see the truth of the Jaina view that beyond finite universe there is infinite extension of the space substance. If space where finite, 'it would be limited by something else and would have a beyond to it which must be either another piece of space or pure emptiness.' Since the latter is an impossibility, it must be the former and therefore space must be a real substance, 'for pure expansion is not thinkable in the absence of a substance in which it might inhere:
Consequently the claim of space to rank amongst one of the fundamental substances constituting the universe is firmly established.
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SUTRA 19. शरीरवाङ्मनः प्राणापानाः
ESISTEITA 119811 SARIRA-VANMANAH-PRĀŅĀPĀNĀH
PUDGALĀNĀM. [19] (TT-018 - HTI-TOT-379777: ofaring TEMAT JYar: 1)
(Matter forms the physical basis of the bodies, speach, mind the respiration of the souls.)
In Gommat a-sāra, the brilliant composition of Sri Nemicandra Siddhānta-cakravarti, we read the following:
पुरग्लाणि पुणो। देहादीणिव्वत्तणकारणभूदा हु णियमेण ।।