Jains Through Time

SR No.: 006591
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shilapi Sadhvi
Publisher: Veerayatan
Total Pages: 282
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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The Jains through Time
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Nothing remains static in the whole of A dry plain at Haridwar marks the spot creation. What appears so unchanging, or where seven sacred streams of the Ganges what we callstill', is not really stillness at all. once flowed. The sand dunes of Rajasthan Everything is prone to change. In fact were once submerged under a mighty change is nature and nature is change. All ocean. Orissa's Konark Sun temple, once living and non-living things are changing all built on the seashore, has now moved the time. Neither man nor nature remains inland. Such changes are the law of nature, static. Though the dust under our feet a law that brooks no exception. appears inert and lifeless, were we to study it closely under a microscope, we would find a Man himself is an intrinsic part of this great deal of activity in each tiny speck. Even change and he, in turn, is evolving. the Himalayas, which appear so immutable, Philosophers have called man a 'deathare actually growing, changing and moving inhabited being. Every moment we are every second of the day. In the last 15 moving towards death. The human body is million years the Himalayas have grown by perishable and its existence is momentary. 3,000 meters. Geologist John Holden claims On the surface it seems so unchanging. that 200 million years ago Japan was near the Look inside and what do you find? Every North Pole and India near the South Pole. moment the body changes as hundreds of Earth itself, the mountains and the oceans, thousands of old cells die and are replaced. the sun and the moon, are all changing. At every moment our bodies are engaged in Change and evolution come through the process of life and death. They are movement and flow. Scientists tell us that the nothing but a mighty crematorium and a moon moves around the earth, and earth massive birthing place where millions of moves around the sun. The sun is moving cells die and are born every day. too. Our sun and its solar family moves around in a galaxy, which itself also moves Does the blood that flows through our veins spirally ad infinitum.
stop even for a second? Unclean blood